Fatah leader, 20 Palestinians arrested by IOF in Al-Quds, West Bank

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The Israeli Occupation has arrested Monday the Secretary of the Fatah movement in Al-Quds, Shadi Mtour, after raiding his house in Beit Hanina, Al-Quds.

For months, Mtour has been subjected to continuous harassment by the Israeli occupation authorities. As part of the harassment campaign against him, the occupation stripped his wife of her residency permit into occupied Al-Quds a while back.

Mtour's arrest comes as part of an arrest campaign that has detained 20 Palestinians today and yesterday, Sunday, in the West Bank but mostly from Beit Lahm, according to local and security sources.

The sources revealed that Israeli forces rounded up eight Palestinians, including four fathers and their teenage sons, before raiding their houses in Al-Khader, south Beit Lahm. 

Alongside detaining three other Palestinians, the Israelis ransacked family homes in Al-Asakra, also south Beit Lahm. 

In Al-Khalil district, the sources confirmed that the Israeli occupation raided Taffuh, located 8 km west of Al-Khalil, resulting in another detention of a Palestinian man. 

In Ramallah district, a military vehicle convoy stormed Burqa, a village southeast of the city, where soldiers broke into numerous homes in addition to searching them, resulting in the detaining of four more Palestinians. 

In Nablus district - northern West Bank - Israeli soldiers detained two more: One from Nablus, and another who was a former prison residing in Zawata, northwest Nablus.

After raiding the Tulkarm refugee camp in the Tulkarm district, the occupation soldiers detained one Palestinian. During the raid, the Israeli soldiers rammed their military jeeps into numerous vehicles that were parked on the road, damaging them.

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Earlier this month, the Israeli occupation arrested more than 42 Palestinian prisoners, mostly from Al-Khalil, according to Palestinian media.  

Israeli media outlets indicated that the arrests were focused mainly in Al-Khalil region, in the South of the West Bank, in which 25 Palestinians were arrested.

In response, tens of men stood up against the Israeli forces in Khalat Al-Amoud in the western part of the city, and Al-Quds Governor Adnan Ghaith was arrested from his residence.