Occupation arrests widow of Yahya Ayyash in West Bank

On Friday, Israeli occupation forces launched a wide arrest campaign in various areas of the West Bank, targeting the widow of the martyr engineer Yahya Ayyash, on charges of incitement via the Internet.

Palestinian sources stated that the occupation army stormed neighborhoods in Nablus, including the northern mountain area, raided and searched a number of citizens' homes, before arresting the Palestinian Hiyam Ayyash.

The sources added that the army hung a sign at the entrance to Ayyash's house after her arrest, which read: "Umm Al-Baraa was arrested for incitement on the Internet," accompanied by a picture of a post attributed to her on "Facebook."

Yahya Ayyash is considered one of the most prominent leaders of the "Al-Qassam Brigades," the armed wing of the "Hamas" movement. He was assassinated by the occupation forces in the Gaza Strip on January 5, 1996, with an explosive device planted in a mobile phone.

Today's arrest is part of campaigns carried out by the Israeli occupation army in cities and towns of the West Bank, for multiple reasons, including what the Israeli authorities describe as "incitement" through social media.

Meanwhile, the occupation forces arrested two Palestinians and detained dozens during a raid on a number of homes during their storming of several areas in the Hebron governorate, south of the West Bank.

Security sources reported that the occupation forces stormed the towns of Taffuh, Tarqumiya, Deir Samit, and Beit Ummar in the Hebron governorate, raided and searched a number of citizens' homes and tampered with their contents, before arresting citizens Bakr Khalil Ghraib and Muhammad Hussein Awad.

It indicated that the Israeli occupation forces, with a large number of their military vehicles, stormed the town of Yatta, spread in several neighborhoods of the town and around citizens' homes, raided a number of them, and detained dozens of them for long hours in the Al-Maidan area in the center of the town, including ambulance crews, and subjected them to field interrogation.