Israeli occupation forces have carried out a string of overnight incursions into several towns in the West Bank, arresting several Palestinians, including the sisters of top Hamas official Saleh al-Arouri killed in a drone strike on the southern suburb of the Lebanese capital Beirut.
The official Palestinian news agency WAFA, citing local sources, said Israeli forces rolled into the towns of Mazra’a al-Gharbiya, Arura and Birzeit as well as Jalazone refugee camp, located 7 kilometers (4.3 miles) north of Ramallah, onboard several jeeps and armored vehicles early on Sunday.
They broke into several homes and residential buildings, and violently ransacked them. They took away a number of people to unknown locations.
Dalal and Fatima al-Arouri, the sisters of the assassinated deputy head of the political bureau of the Palestinian Hamas resistance movement, were among those arrested during the Israeli raids.
Arouri was killed on January 2 in a “treacherous Zionist strike” on Beirut’s southern suburb of Dahiyeh, Hamas announced on its official channel.
