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by IMEMC News

Israeli soldiers shot and killed, on Thursday evening, a Palestinian man from Beit Ola town, west of Hebron in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, during a scuffle that took place after the soldiers broke into his home. The man was injured before the soldiers kidnapped him and his father, and later announced his death.

The Palestinian District Coordination Office (DCO) said the soldiers broke into the family home Mohammad Ahmad Abdul-Fattah Saraheen, 30, leading to the scuffle inside the property.

The soldiers then shot and injured Mohammad, before cuffing him along with his father, Ahmad, and kidnapped them. The army later announced the young man’s death; the father is still held by the army.

hebron-killedThe fatal shooting took place after a number of army vehicles invaded Beit Ola, and clashed with several youngsters who hurled stones and empty bottles on them, while the soldiers fired gas bombs, concussion grenades and rubber-coated steel bullets, and broke into homes.

In Bethlehem, the soldiers invaded Beit Sahour town, east of the city, and kidnapped a young man, identified as Ramzi Ahmad Khleif, 41.

In Jerusalem, the soldiers kidnapped a young man from a store in Hizma town, east of the city, and confiscated his car. The army claimed to receive information that the man ‘intended to carry out a stabbing attack.”
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HEBRON (Ma’an) -- Israeli forces detained at least seven Palestinians Thursday in overnight and daytime raids across the occupied West Bank Thursday, according to local and Israeli army sources.

Israeli forces reportedly detained a Palestinian man and his son from the town of Beit Ula in the western Hebron district on Thursday afternoon.
Locals told Ma’an that Israeli soldiers detained Muhammad Abd al-Fattah Sarrahin and his son Ahmad, who was injured in his soldier with live fire forces raided their home.

Witnesses added that a fist fight broke out between Ahmad and the soldiers during the raid before a soldier opened fire at him.

Israeli soldiers then handcuffed him and detained him and his father. It remained unclear if or when Ahmad was given medical treatment.

An Israeli army spokesperson told Ma’an that they detained five Palestinians in overnight raids, identifying three from the village of Surif in the southern district of Hebron, claiming two were “Hamas operatives.”
They also identified one detainee from Hebron city, and one from the al-Amari refugee camp in the central Ramallah district.

Israeli forces carry out raids across the occupied Palestinian territory on a near-nightly basis. Although UN documentation estimates that the army has carried out a weekly average of 75 detention raids in the occupied West Bank so far in 2016, the average rose to 93 weekly raids from June to August.

According to prisoners’ rights group Addameer, some 7,000 Palestinians were held in Israeli prisons as of July.

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