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by IMEMC News
Feb 6, 2022

On Sunday at dawn, Israeli soldiers abducted six Palestinians, including two teenage boys and siblings, from Bethlehem and Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank.

Media sources in Bethlehem said several army jeeps invaded Beit Fajjar town, south of the city before the soldiers stormed and violently a few homes.

They added that the soldiers abducted Fadel Faisal Thawabta, 20, Mos’ab Samir Taqatqa, 16, and Shaher Osama Taqatqa, 17, from their homes in the town.

In addition, the soldiers and police officers invaded the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in the occupied capital, Jerusalem, searched homes, abducted two siblings, identified as Ramadan and Mohammad Haj Mahmoud, in addition to Yazan Husseini.

During the invasion, the officers tried to remove a Palestinian who was documenting the unfolding incident live on social media, but he insisted on continuing filing and asked them not to hurt him in addition to telling them that he was not doing anything illegal.

On Saturday evening, the soldiers invaded two Palestinian towns near the northern West Bank city of Jenin, installed roadblocks, and searched lands.

On Saturday at night, Israeli soldiers invaded the town of Sur Baher, southeast of the occupied Palestinian capital, Jerusalem, in the West Bank, the official Palestine TV has reported.

On Friday at night, Palestinian residents thwarted an attempt by an illegal Israeli colonizer to burn a Palestinian-owned vehicle in the threatened Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem, witnesses reported. The Israeli police later arrested the assailant, the Wadi Hilweh Information Center In Silwan (Silwanic) has confirmed.

Also on Friday at night, illegal Israeli colonists uprooted 25 olive saplings owned by local Palestinian farmers in the village of Bruqin, west of Salfit in central occupied West Bank, local sources reported.

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