Big numbers of Israeli occupation forces (IOF) backed with armored vehicles and copters stormed at dawn Monday the Palestinian refugee camp of Shafat, north of occupied Jerusalem, before they imposed a curfew on the camp, Palestinian sources said.
According to the sources, hundreds of IOF troops stormed the camp and raided tens of Palestinian homes without search warrants before they rounded up tens of the camp's inhabitants.
Eyewitnesses confirmed that the IOF troops used sound bombs and live bullets during the incursion, adding that elements of the Israeli intelligence were seen interrogating the arrested Palestinians in the field.
In the city's Sheikh Jarrah suburb, an armed Israeli settler wearing military uniform pointed his rifle at Palestinian lady Refqa Al-Kurd, 85, in a bid to frighten her and force her out of what is remained of her house after the settlers occupied most of it.
The incident prompted clashes between the Palestinian neighbors, who rushed for the help of the elderly woman, and the settlers.
Another Israeli settler in the same suburb dropped a big stone at Palestinian teenager Murad Ateyyah, 14, prompting angry Palestinian citizens to intervene and clash with the settlers before the Israeli occupation police arrived and broke up the clashes.
Palestinian Jerusalemites asserted that attacks by Israeli settlers against them increased rapidly with the aim to force them out of the city.
In the West Bank city of Al-Bireh, north of Ramallah, IOF troops kidnapped Palestinian lady Muntaha Al-Taweel, 45, wife of the city's mayor Jamal Al-Taweel who is detained in an Israeli jail.
A statement issued by the city's council accused the IOF troops of savagely storming the house and arresting Al-Taweel in front of her children. Al-Taweel was known in the city for helping needy and poor Palestinian families.
In Gaza city, Palestinian legislator MP Jamal Skeik of Hamas Movement warned that the Israeli plan of sealing off the Bab Al-Amod gate, one of the gates of the Aqsa Mosque, was meant to Judaize the mosque.
"These Israeli measures against the Aqsa Mosque wouldn’t have happened had Arabs and Muslims indeed stood up in defense of the Mosque", Skeik pointed out.
