Israeli forces arrest 3 Palestinians in the Jordan Valley, besiege a mosque and detain worshippers in Ramallah

Israeli occupation forces stormed the town of Qatanna, northwest of occupied Jerusalem, on Sunday evening, setting up a military checkpoint at its entrance. They stopped and searched vehicles and checked the IDs of Palestinians, causing traffic disruptions.

The same sources added that occupation soldiers deployed around the town’s entrance, but no arrests were reported.

Meanwhile, on Sunday evening, Israeli occupation forces surrounded the old mosque in the village of Kafr Ni’ma, west of Ramallah in the central West Bank, and detained a number of worshippers inside during their raid on the village.

Eyewitnesses reported that occupation forces stormed Kafr Ni’ma and fired stun grenades and tear gas in the vicinity of the mosque and within the village’s neighborhoods, causing panic and fear among residents, especially women and children.

The sources added that occupation soldiers tightened their military measures and prevented residents from approaching the mosque while the worshippers were being held. Their number and fate remain unknown.

Israeli occupation forces arrested two Palestinians from the northern Jordan Valley and a third from Bethlehem, in the southern occupied West Bank, on Sunday evening.

Local sources reported that the occupation forces raided the Khirbet al-Hadidiya community in the Jordan Valley and arrested Aref Omar Bisharat and Ali Muhammad Bani Odeh.

The occupation forces also arrested Yazan Fathi Ibrahim Ayad, a resident of the Dheisheh refugee camp in Bethlehem.