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by IMEMC News
August 13, 2020 3:11 PM

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers abducted, Thursday, fourteen Palestinians, including the brother of a woman was killed by the army on August 7th, from several parts of the occupied West Bank.

The PPS office in Bethlehem, south of occupied Jerusalem, said the soldiers abducted Mohammad Obeid Nawawra, 20, and Bader Sa’id Nawawra, 24, from their homes in Al-Mawaleh Mountain area.

It added that the soldiers also detained Firas al-Yamani, after storming his home in Hindaza Mountain area, but released him a few hours later.

In Jenin, in northern West Bank, the soldiers abducted Ahmad Etsitty, the brother of Dalia Sammoudi, 23, who was killed by Israeli army fire, on August 7th, during an army invasion into the city. The woman, a mother of two children, including a newborn.

Dalia woke up to feed her hungry newborn and tried to close a window to prevent the tear-gas from seeping into her home before she was shot with a live round in the chest.

The soldiers also abducted a young man, identified as Raed Anas Hathnawi, after stopping him at the Za’tara military roadblock, south of Nablus.

In Ramallah, in central West Bank, the soldiers abducted two young men, Nasser Barghouthi and Salah Barghouthi, from their homes in Beit Rima and Deir Ghassana town, northwest of Ramallah.

In Hebron, in southern West Bank, the soldiers abducted Amir Yousef Awad, 22, from his home in Beit Ummar town, north of the city.

In Salfit, in central West Bank, the soldiers abducted Zahi ad-Deek, Husam al-Ahmad and Majd Dhamra, from their homes in Kafr ed-Deek town, west of the city.

In related news, the soldiers invaded the home of Sa’id Zeidan, the mayor of Deir Istiya town, near Salfit, and interrogated him, in addition to threatening to hurt and abduct him if Palestinian protesters continue to throw stones and Molotov cocktails at the army vehicles in the bypass road.

They also told the mayor that he must stop the preparations for paving a new agricultural road for the farmers.

The governor of Salfit, Abdullah Kamil, denounced the escalating violations against the Palestinians and their lands, and added that the Palestinians will remain steadfast despite the Israeli attacks.

In occupied Jerusalem, the soldiers abducted two children, identified as Iyad Obeid and Mahmoud Obeid from their homes in the al-‘Isawiya town, in addition to a former political prisoner, Nihad Zghayyar, 42, from the Old City.

In Tubas, in northeastern West Bank, the soldiers abducted Nasr Abdullah Daraghma, from his home in the city.

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