JENIN, (PIC)-- Israeli occupation forces (IOF) escalated their daily arrest campaigns in lines of Palestinian citizens in the West Bank and rounded up 17 citizens at dawn Thursday.

Local sources in a number of West Bank cities said that IOF troops stormed those provinces and detained eight in Nablus, five in Jordan Valley, three in Ramallah, and one in Al-Khalil.

Eyewitnesses in the Jordan Valley told the PIC reporter that IOF infantry patrols stormed the Fara’a refugee camp and rounded up five young men.

They said that the soldiers burst into many homes and vulgarly searched them after forcing out their inhabitants into the open, cold weather and installed roadblocks at the entrance to the camp and searched vehicles.

Locals in Jenin province said that IOF soldiers roamed the streets of Jenin refugee camp and Qabatia village, east of Jenin, and fired into the air.