At dawn and Thursday morning, the Israeli occupation forces launched a massive campaign of arrests among citizens in separate areas of the West Bank.

According to the prisoners' institutions, those forces arrested no less than 33 citizens, and were concentrated in the town of Tuqu', east of Bethlehem.

According to the same sources, those forces arrested no less than 24 citizens from Tekoa, most of them from the same families, such as al-Amor and Sabah, before releasing some of them later after subjecting them to an investigation in a nearby camp, while keeping a number of others.

Large forces stormed the town amid massive raids on citizens' homes, searching them, tampering with their contents, vandalizing them, and subjecting its residents to field investigations.

In Hebron, Qusai Sabarneh, Murad Sabarneh, and Ahmed Salibi, all from the town of Beit Ummar, were arrested.

In Ramallah, Amer Atef Abu Alia, his mother, and the young man, Alaa Reda Abu Alia, were arrested, all of whom were from Al-Mughayer.

In Nablus, the editor Suleiman Abu Salha, Malik Abdo, and Saher Al-Hajj Hamdan were arrested.

Meanwhile, Muhammad Hussein Kamil, from Qabatiya, south of Jenin, was arrested.

In Salfit, the occupation forces arrested Salem Muhammad Abu Yaqoub, Ibrahim Abu Yaqoub, and Uday Hassan Shaqour, after they raided and searched the homes of their families and tampered with their contents in the town of Kifl Haris.