JENIN: Israeli occupation forces on Friday night raided several towns and villages in the Jenin Governorate, where they carried out wide-scale raid and search campaigns, leading to confrontations.

Security sources told WAFA that a large military force broke into the town of Yabad, raided its neighborhoods, and deployed their forces across the streets and alleys, where they carried out wide-scale home raids and searches, deployed snipers on the rooftops of buildings and shops and set up ambushes throughout the neighborhoods.

Forces reportedly wreaked havoc in residents’ houses and attacked their vehicles during their military offensive against the town, during which they assaulted youths and detained several of them.

According to sources, a youth was transferred to the hospital after he was severely beaten up by the forces, which caused him cuts and bruises throughout his body.

Confrontations broke out in the said town following the military incursion, during which Israeli soldiers attacked residents and t
heir homes with live fire and stun grenades. However, no injuries were reported.

In a related context, Israeli forces stormed several villages and towns south, west, and east of Jenin, where they deployed their military tanks, carried out a search-sweeping campaign, and erected flying military checkpoints hindering residents’ movement.

Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA