Israeli occupation arrests several Palestinians and brutally beats a herder

OCCUPIED AL-QUDS, May.3, (ST)- Israeli occupation forces arrested overnight at least 5 Palestinians from the northern West Bank districts of Jenin and Nablus, according local sources.

 

The sources told WAFA News Agency that the Israeli occupation forces rounded up three Palestinians, including a former prisoner, and ransacked their houses in Al-Yamun town, west of Jenin.

 

The occupation forces also showed up at a house in Beit Qad village, east of Jenin, muscled inside and ultimately detained another Palestinian.

Moreover, Israeli occupation forces targeted farmers and herders east of Khan Younes city in the southern besieged Gaza Strip.

 

WAFA reported that the heavily-armed  soldiers in observation towers, located to the east of the city, opened heavy machine gunfire on Palestinian farmers tending their land and herders grazing their cattle, east of Khuza‘a town, forcing them to flee for their safety.

 

Meanwhile, heavily-armed soldiers re-arrested a former prisoner after breaking into his house in al-‘Ein refugee camp, west of Nablus.

 

The Israeli occupation forces frequently raid Palestinian houses almost on a daily basis across the West Bank on the pretext of searching for “wanted” Palestinians, triggering clashes with residents.

 

These raids, which take place also in areas under the full control of the Palestinian Authority, are conducted with no search warrant, whenever and wherever the military chooses in keeping with its sweeping arbitrary powers.

 

In another development, Israeli settlers assaulted a Palestinian shepherd in Kafr Malik village, east of Ramallah. 

 

Local sources said that a group of settlers riding horses, under occupation military protection, barged their way into al-Khallal area in the village, brutally beat a local herder while he was grazing his sheep and chased his sheep out of the village.

 

Compiled by: Basma Qaddour