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WEST BANK (PIC) 19 July -- Five Palestinians including a woman were arrested in the West Bank on Tuesday amid an intense Israeli search and arrest campaign ... That morning, the Israeli occupation forces nabbed two men in Taffouh, which lies west of Al-Khalil, and a woman aged 45 after searching her husband's home in Al-Khalil city. Similar forces searched a separate home in nearby Dhahiriyya without report of arrest.
The same day, the IOF declared the village of Al-Tuwana, to the south of Al-Khalil, a military zone and banned dozens of foreign pro-Palestinian activists from entering and supporting locals who have been under attack by Jewish settlers from the Ma'on settlement outpost.

In Jenin, IOF troops carried out a raid and search operation on Palestinian homes in the Al-Bassatein district and questioned locals early morning on the ground. Locals said that more than 20 military vehicles joined the operation. Locals also reported that IOF troops arrested a 22-year-old Palestinian youth in Jenin's Kharouba district. The IOF also raided the villages of Al-Yamoun, Al-Seilat al-Harithiyya, Al-Hashimiyya, and Al-Irqa and deployed its vehicles in those communities.

On Tuesday morning, IOF soldiers arrested a young man from the Tekoa southeast of Bethlehem after raiding the home of a local there. The IOF set up military checkpoints earlier that night in Tekoa and Khadir, stopping and searching vehicles and checking for identification.