Zionist enemy forces launch campaign of raids, arrests in West Bank
SANAA, Aug. 12 (YPA) – The Zionist enemy forces launched on Wednesday night a campaign of arrests in separate areas of the occupied West Bank, targeting a freed prisoner who was released yesterday, Wednesday, after 16 years of detention.
Separate areas of the occupied West Bank and Al-Quds are witnessing daily incursions and arrests of citizens, amid terror against residents, women and children.
The Prisoner’s Club reported that the enemy forces arrested 12 young men during raids in different areas of the West Bank, where they were transferred to the security services for investigation under the pretext of participating in popular resistance activities against settlers and the enemy army.
In Hebron, the enemy forces stormed the village of Al-Shuyukh, Hebron District, and re-arrested the released prisoner Hamza Halayka after storming his house, knowing that the enemy authorities released him, on Wednesday, after he spent 16 years in the prisons of the enemy.
The enemy forces had arrested Halayka from the town of Sheikhs of Hebron District, in August 2005, against the background of his resistance work in the ranks of the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades.
Upon his arrest, the prisoner, Halayqa, was subjected to rounds of harsh investigation by enemy intelligence officers and investigators. He was also subjected to isolation and transfer between many detention centers before the final decision was issued to detain him for 16 years. He was released yesterday, Wednesday, and received in a crowded crowd.
In Bethlehem, enemy forces arrested the young man, Adham Nasser Awad, from Jabal al-Mawaleh, after raiding and searching his father’s house and vandalizing its contents.
From Nablus, the enemy forces arrested the two young men, Muhammad Fathi Hamayel, and Muhammad Awad Daoud, from his home in the town of Beita.
The enemy forces also arrested the freed captive Salloum Joudeh, after raiding and searching his house in the new Askar camp.
In Jenin, the enemy forces arrested three brothers from Umm al-Rihan village.
The Prisoner Club reported that the enemy forces stormed the village of Umm al-Raihan, prevented the citizens from entering and leaving the village, and arrested three brothers.
In Tubas, the enemy forces arrested the citizen Fawaz Abu Dawas and his son Muhammad, as well as the two brothers, Muayyad and Musab Sawafta, after raiding and searching their homes in the city of Tubas.