Israeli forces have carried out raids and arrests across the occupied West Bank, including arresting a female Palestinian teacher from the Jalazoun refugee camp, north of Ramallah, and two brothers in Hebron.

Israeli soldiers fired live bullets and detonated sound bombs when they raided the home of the brothers in the Talaat al-Takrouri aread of southern Hebron, Palestine’s state news agency Wafa reports.

Israeli forces also stormed the following villages, towns and cities: Azzun and Jayyus towns, located east of Qalqilya City; communities in the east of Nablus city; Qabatiaya, south of Jenin; Ya’bad town and the villages of Tura and al-Taram, located southwest of Jenin; Dura town, south of Hebron, where local people confronted the raid by Israeli forces who fired fired noxious gas and stun grenades.

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