IOF erected Sunday military checkpoints in Hebron and at the entrance of Palestine Polytechnic University in the city of Tulkarem.
Israeli occupation forces erected Sunday military checkpoints in Hebron and at the entrance of Palestine Polytechnic University in the city of Tulkarem, and conducted searching operations to the citizens who were passing to their destinations.
Local sources reported that four Israeli vehicles invaded Tulkarem from the southern entrance and closed the road leading to the Palestine University.
Sources added that Israeli soldiers accompanied by an intelligence officer questioned the students and held most of them for hours in addition to a number of photojournalists who were trying to cover the scene.
Moreover, Several Israeli troops invaded on Saturday Bil’in village in the west of Ramallah, and intensively fired gas bombs at Palestinian citizens, causing many suffocation cases.
Rateb Abu Rahma, coordinator of the Popular Committee against the Wall in Bil’in, said that four Israeli vehicles provocatively raided the village amid firing gas bombs at residents.
The Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlement denounced the Israeli violent incursion, stating that Israeli army repeatedly attacked Bil’in village in an attempt to halt the weekly rallies held by Palestinian villagers against the construction of the wall, which isolates them from their own lands.
In the meantime, Israeli forces detained on Saturday evening two international supporters who were trying to enter the town of Beit Ummer in order to allow residents to participate in the weekly rally against the Apartheid Wall.
Yousef Abu Maria, anti-wall committee spokesman in Beit Ummer, said that dozens of Israeli armed soldiers prevented participants from reaching Al-Daher area near Karmi Tsur settlement built on the Palestinian territories.
Israeli soldiers detained two peace activists and assaulted a number of them, declaring the area as a “military closed zone.”
Hundreds of Palestinians from Beit Ummer and the nearby villages organize non-violent rallies every Saturday to oppose Israeli ongoing confiscation and demolition.
