Israeli army seizes two Bil'in boys

Ma'an
Bethlehem – Ma’an – Israeli soldiers seized two fifteen-year-old Palestinian boys from their homes in the West Bank village of Bil’in, west of Ramallah, on Tuesday morning...

...Israeli soldiers invaded the village at 3am and conducted house to house searches. The Israeli military confirmed that it arrested two people during an overnight raid in the village.

...Burnat told Ma’an he did not know why the two were arrested, though he said, that like many people the village, they were known to attend the weekly demonstration [against the wall being built on village land], suggesting that the raid was intended to discourage protest.

...On Monday, Burnat said, two other boys... were arrested when they ventured out to their family’s farmland in the village. They, like the two arrested today, are being held at an unknown location.

These arrests come as court proceedings begin in a lawsuit Bil’in brought in Quebec against two Canadian companies involved in constructing the Israeli settlement of Modi’in Ilit on the village’s land. Full story