The Israeli occupation forces arrested Friday seven Palestinians in separate areas of the occupied West Bank.

Security sources stated that the occupation forces arrested six people from different locations northeast of Hebron and Bethlehem, after they searched their homes.

The Israeli occupation forces also arrested, at Friday dawn, a freed Palestinian prisoner from the town of Ni'lin, west of Ramallah.

In a related development, the Palestine Red Crescent reported that about 20 Palestinians were injured and suffocated as a result of the occupation forces and settlers storming the town of Sebastia in Nablus, in the northern West Bank.

Local sources said that dozens of soldiers stormed Sebastia at midnight yesterday and assaulted its citizens.

It is noteworthy that the town of Sebastia is repeatedly attacked by the occupation forces and settlers, while the occupation authorities seek to control and close the archaeological area in the town.

Israeli occupation forces have escalated, in recent weeks, their raids and incursions into Palestinian villages and towns in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem. It also increased the pace of its arrests of Palestinian activists and youths.

Source: Qatar News Agency