WEST BANK (Dispatches) – Several Palestinians were wounded and others arrested during raids by Zionist troops on various towns and cities in the occupied West Bank in the early hours of Tuesday.
Following armed clashes that lasted for hours, Zionist troops detained two Palestinians from Rujeib village near Nablus.
According to local media, Nabil al-Sawalhi and Mahmoud al-Tirawi were arrested inside a house in Rujeib. Zionist troops had fired five anti-armor shells at Sawalhi’s house, wounded four Palestinians with bullets, and used Sawalhi’s father as a human shield to make the arrests.
The Zionist regime’s army meanwhile sent reinforcements, a bulldozer and a reconnaissance plane to Rujeib.
In Nablus, two settlers were also wounded on Tuesday morning when shooters fired at their vehicle as it was being driven to Joseph’s Tomb on the outskirts of the Palestinian city.
Armed clashes also erupted on Tuesday morning in the Palestinian town of Jenin.
Zionist troops had raided Jenin town, arrested two young men, and destroyed the furniture in the house of a released Palestinian prisoner.
Palestinian media reported that Zionist troops had confiscated several civilian vehicles and used them to infiltrate what is known as the German neighborhood and schools in the eastern parts of Jenin.
More than 25 military Zionist vehicles raided the area while soldiers occupied the rooftops of several homes, held their residents, and turned their houses into military observation points.
Eyewitnesses told local media that Palestinian gunmen had clashed with Zionist special units in several places in Jenin’s eastern neighborhood, where they heard heavy gunfire and explosions.
Zionist troops arrested Omar Bulbul, a former political prisoner, and Mohammed al-Saadi, after chasing them in a vehicle in Jenin.
They also stormed the house of former political prisoner Ghassan al-Atrash in the German neighborhood and held him and his family for about two hours, searching the house and destroying all its contents.
Zionist troops also arrested six Palestinians from the city of Tulkarm, raided the house of Muntaser al-Karraz in al-Faraa refugee camp Tubas, and arrested him.