The Israeli occupation forces arrested, at dawn and Sunday morning, 9 citizens from separate areas in the West Bank.

According to local sources, these forces raided the town of Ya`bad in Jenin, and arrested the injured young man, Ghanem Bassam Hamarsheh, Abboud Jaafar Al-Taher, and the boy, Abd Muhammad Hamarsheh, after raiding the homes of their relatives and tampering with their contents.

These forces also raided many citizens' homes, including the editor Tareq Qabha, amidst clashes with angry youths.

While the Israeli army said that, in addition to Ya`bad, it arrested a number of what it called wanted persons, from Nilin in the Ramallah district, and Husan in Bethlehem, and that it had found weapons during the raids.