The Palestinian Information Center says undercover Israeli agents and regime forces have kidnapped 22 Palestinians including police officers in a series of raids across the occupied West Bank.
Twelve officers were forcibly taken away in the town of Ni’lin near the city of Ramallah on Sunday.
Nine citizens were also abducted in the cities of Ramallah, Bethlehem and al-Khalil (Hebron). Another Palestinian was taken away In the Issawiya neighborhood of East Jerusalem al-Quds.
The circumstances surrounding the kidnappings remain unknown, although Israelis carry out such swoops customarily.
Tensions have been mounting between Israelis and Palestinians in the wake of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to annex parts of the West Bank.
The occupied territories are already reeling from US President Donald Trump’s announcement of his decision on December 6, 2017 to recognize Jerusalem al-Quds as Israel’s ‘capital’ and relocate the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to the city.
This article has been adapted from its original source.
