Israeli forces arrest 22 Palestinians

SANAA, May 12 (YPA) – Israeli occupation forces on Thursday launched massive campaign of raids and arrests against Palestinian citizens in West Bank and al-Quds city, Palestinian media reported on Tuesday.

According to Palestinian media, the occupying forces arrested 13 youths from the town of Silwan in al-Quds occupied city late at night.

The sources stated that the they severely beat the youths and minors before arresting them and transporting them to the Moscobiya police station.

The sources explained that the occupying forces carried out a large-scale arrest campaign in Silwan, arresting 13 citizens and in the West Bank, clashes with the occupying forces broke out in Qalqilya.

According to eyewitnesses, Israeli forces stormed the city and  stationed  near its northern entrance amid  firing of the sound bombs and clashe.

Witnesses said that the Israeli occupation forces arrested a Palestinian youth, from the town of Azzun, at a military checkpoint on the road between Azzun and Azba al-Da’i in Qalqilya district, and also detained three other youths.

According to local sources, the forces stormed the town of Ya’abd, south of Jenin, at dawn and arrested four Palestinian youths. In Hebron, the forces arrested one Palestinian.

The Israeli occupation forces also stormed the house of the freed prisoner Abdul Mahdi al-Zahra in Beit Kahal, northwest of Hebron, and brutally tampered with the house and terrorized the children.

E.M