(MENAFN- Jordan News Agency) Israeli occupation forces Thursday dawn launched a wide search and arrest campaign in the west Bank city of Hebron.
The spokesman of the Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlement, Mohammed Awad, said in a statement that Israeli troops stormed the towns of Beit Ummar, Halhul and Dura and arrested 20 Palestinians.
Clashes erupted and a number of Palestinians were suffocated after inhaling teargas fired at them by the Israeli soldiers, he added.
The Israeli army launches arrest campaigns on a daily basis against dozens of Palestinians in various cities and villages of the West Bank under various pretexts.
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