The Israeli occupation forces launched a wide-scale arrest campaign in the West Bank at dawn and this morning, Wednesday.

In Bethlehem, the occupation forces arrested: Yazan Yousef Al-Balawi (30 years old), Muhammad Walid Al-Saqa (23 years old), Saleh Muhammad Al-Jaidi (32 years old), Muhammad Fawzi Sajdiya (49 years old), Khaled Ali Al-Saifi (66 years old), Raafat Naim Abu Aker (52 years old), Karam Nasri Abd Rabbo (30 years old), Ahmed Mazen Ruqban (23 years old), Khaled Nayef Al-Jarashi (43 years old), and Theeb Abdul Hamid Najajra from the town of Nahalin, west of Bethlehem, after raiding and searching their homes.

In Nablus, the occupation forces stormed the villages of Beit Furik and Salem to the east, and Asira al-Shamaliya to the north of Nablus, and raided a number of homes there, searched them and tampered with their contents, and arrested each of: Yasar Munther Ishtia from Salem, Jihad Hamdi Khatatbeh, Abdul Ayham Bani Odeh, and Ahmed Bilal Nasasra from Beit Furik, and Muhammad Jamal Sawalma from Asira al-Shamaliya.

In Hebron, Shawqi Muhammad Abd al-Raouf al-Atrash, Mustafa Abd al-Jawad al-Atrash, Wael Marwan al-Atrash, and Sami Yusuf Matar from al-Tabqa, and Muhammad and Munif Hajjah from the town of Dura, were arrested after their homes were raided and searched.

The occupation police also arrested the young man, Musab Mahmoud Islimiya, from the town of Idhna, west of Hebron, from inside the 1948 territories.

Meanwhile, the young man, Rayan Abu Shanab, was arrested after raiding his house in the Ezbet al-Jarad suburb, east of Tulkarm city.

In Salfit, the occupation forces arrested the mayor of Kafel Haris, Osama Zaid Saleh, and the citizen Ammar Saleh Hammad, and from the town of Burqin, the citizen Hussein Kamel Samara, and from the village of Iskaka, they arrested each of: Zaid Hussam Harb, Muhammad Bahjat Harb, and Youssef Kamal Harb.