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by IMEMC News
Feb 19, 2024

On Monday, Israeli forces abducted twenty-four Palestinians in the Ramallah, occupied Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and Hebron governorates in the central and southern West Bank.

Israeli forces abducted, at dawn on Monday, Jihad Karaja, after storming his home in the Al-Masayef neighborhood, in the central West Bank city of Ramallah.

Local Palestinian youths protested the incursion, hurling stones at the armored military vehicles.

Meanwhile, several military vehicles invaded the town of Beit Rima, northwest of Ramallah, and abducted three Palestinians, including a father and son.

After storming their homes, soldiers abducted Alaa Nimr Sattouf, Muhammad al-Rimawi, and his son, Yahya.

In the town of Silwan, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem, Israeli forces abducted three young men, including two brothers.

Soldiers broke into the homes of the two brothers, Mahmoud and Arafat Iyad Taha, in addition to Muhammad Mazen Abu Sneina.

Media sources added that soldiers posted leaflets in the town of Al-Mokabber, southeast of occupied Jerusalem, threatening citizens not to confront Israeli incursions into the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

At dawn on Monday, the army abducted Nour al-Din Sami al-Harimi, 26, from the village of Abu Nujaym, south of the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem.

Furthermore, the army abducted sixteen Palestinians in the Hebron governorate in the southern occupied West Bank.

In the city of Hebron, the army broke into and searched the homes of Sajid Al-Laqta, Subhi Abu Zina, Raslan Sayuri, Hassan Sabri Al-Awiwi, Amir Nidal Al-Qawasmi, and Ayoub Anwar Al-Qawasmeh, before abducting them.

The army abducted Hamza Al-Zughair, the two brothers, Qutaiba and Murad Al-Qawasmeh, in addition to the two brothers, Muslim and Mohsen Ayoub Al-Qawasmi, after storming and searching their homes.

Media sources added that soldiers invaded the home of Mansour Siouri and delivered a summons for his son, Samer, for an intelligence review.

Southwest of the city, occupation forces invaded many areas in the town of Doura, and abducted Mohsen Younis Al-Masalma, Ahmed Muhammad Odeh Atbeish, Moaz Khaled Al-Faqih, and Muhammad Nasr Al-Rajoub, after storming and searching their homes.

It was added that soldiers erected many military roadblocks and closed several roads with iron gates and cement cubes in the governorate.

On Monday afternoon, soldiers invaded Doura town, fired tear gas canisters and concussion grenades near the Abu Jayash Mosque, without any reports of injuries.

The army abducted Hamza Muhammad Abd al-Razzaq Zabalah, a resident of Hebron, while he was distributing food supplies.

According to the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS), the Israeli army have abducted 7,100 Palestinian citizens in the occupied West Bank since the beginning of the military onslaught against Gaza, on October 7, 2023.

The statement added that this number includes those who were abducted from their homes, at military roadblocks, and those who were pressured to turn themselves in to the army.

In related news, Israeli forces abducted twenty-two Palestinians in the governorates of Jenin, Qalqilia, Nablus, and Jericho.

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