3, including 2 children, kidnapped in Jerusalem

Israeli soldiers and police officers kidnapped three Palestinians, including two children, in the Bab Al-’Amoud area, one of the Gates of the Old City of occupied Jerusalem, and took them to an interrogation facility. Soldiers attack protesters near the city. Eyewitnesses stated that the soldiers kidnapped Rami Dandees, 14, Majdi Al-Hadra, 14, and Bashar Al-Mashny, 27. They were all cuffed and blindfolded, before being moved to an interrogation facility in Salah Ed-Deen area, in the occupied city, according to the International Middle East Media Center (IMEMC). Furthermore, soldiers violently attacked dozens of Palestinians in Al-Ezariyya and Abu Dis, in occupied Jerusalem, while protesting the death of three Palestinians, shot and killed by Israeli military fire in Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank. The soldiers fired dozens of gas bombs, rubber-coated metal bullets, and rounds of live ammunition. Several Palestinians suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation, and received the needed medical treatment by local medics. In related news, soldiers stationed at the Huwwara roadblock, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, kidnapped a Palestinian child, on Thursday at night. Local sources have reported that the soldiers closed the roadblock for more than 30 minutes, searched dozens of vehicles and interrogated the residents before kidnapping Mo’men Mazen Hneidy, 14.