In West Bank, Israeli forces arrest mother of jailed Palestinians, attack students with tear gas

Israeli forces have detained more than a dozen Palestinians, including the mother of two prisoners, during a massive campaign of raids and kidnappings across the occupied West Bank.

The Palestinian media, quoting local sources, reported on Monday that the mother was abducted from her home in al-Silat al-Harithya area, located west of the northern city of Jenin. Her two sons, Omar and Ghaith Jaradat, are already behind bars in an Israeli jail for allegedly assaulting Israeli settlers.

Israeli soldiers also broke into Palestinian houses in the city of al-Khalil, where they forcibly took away at least four people. Undercover Israeli agents also abducted three more residents after storming their homes in the central city of Ramallah.

The regime forces rearrested the freed prisoner Othman Juma Salah from an area of Bethlehem and ferried him to an undisclosed location. Another Palestinian was detained from the town of Silat al-Harithiya. In northern al-Quds, the regime forces kidnapped two people after storming Qalandia camp, and detained another resident from the town of Biddo.

The circumstances surrounding the kidnappings remain unknown, although Israelis carry out such swoops customarily. The Israeli military is involved in wide-ranging arrest campaigns across the West Bank under the pretext of searching for ‘wanted’ Palestinians.

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The circumstances surrounding the recent kidnappings remain unknown, although Israelis carry out such actions customarily.

Israeli authorities have threatened to launch yet a massive arrest campaign if Palestinian youths do not stop protests against Israel’s settlement expansion in the occupied territories. Much of the international community regards the settlements illegal.

More than 7,000 Palestinian prisoners are currently held in some 17 Israeli jails, with dozens of them serving multiple life sentences.

Hundreds of Palestinian detainees, including women and minors, are being held under the so-called administrative detention, with some of them being held in that condition for up to 11 years without any charges.

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has warned that crossing the red lines in the treatment of prisoners would have "repercussions on the region."

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Israeli forces attack Palestinian school children with tear gas

According to Palestinian media reports, fierce clashes erupted with local residents after Israeli soldiers fired tear gas and stunned grenades towards school children in the town of al-Khader, south of Bethlehem.

Ahmad Salah, an activist, said the incident triggered panic among the children and caused many of them to suffer from suffocation, adding that clashes immediately broke out in the area between the soldiers and residents.

The windshield of a car belonging to a journalist covering the clashes was smashed by one of the tear gas bombs, Salah said.

On Sunday, a spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas denounced the increasingly violent attacks by Israeli forces and settlers across the occupied territories, stressing that Palestinians have a lawful right to resist Israel's occupation of their land.

The Israeli regime occupied the West Bank in 1967 before starting to dot the Palestinian territory with settlements and severely restricting the Palestinians' freedom of movement there.

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