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Arresting a citizen and assaulting other citizens during an occupation campaign in Beit Ummar

Hebron – Ma’an – Large forces of the occupation army stormed, at dawn today, the areas of Erq Al-Latoun, Safa and Al-Madhab’a in the town of Beit Ummar. The soldiers raided a number of citizens’ homes, where they searched them using police dogs, tampered with their contents and destroyed their furniture, and a citizen was arrested.

Media activist in Beit Ummar, Muhammad Ayyad Awad, reported that the occupation forces arrested the citizen Jamil Ahmed Hamid Zaqeq, 29 years old, and his family was detained in a room and his brother Muhammad, 25 years old, was beaten in front of his family for no apparent reason.

Awad added that the occupation soldiers also assaulted and beat three citizens while storming their homes, and the occupation forces confiscated illegal vehicles, and the Al-Bayyada Road was closed with dirt barriers, noting that this road connects the town’s neighborhoods with the northern and western areas of Beit Ummar.

Source: Maan News Agency