JENIN, (PIC)-- Israeli occupation forces (IOF) arrested three Palestinian youths including two brothers in a village to the east of Jenin after raiding their homes at dawn Sunday.

Local sources said that IOF soldiers in a number of armored vehicles stormed the village of Fakua and arrested the three young men, two of them only 17 years old, and burst into the home of Salah Abul Abed and savagely searched it.

The sources said that the arrest campaigns in the village increased after confrontations with the IOF recently during which young men threw stones at the soldiers.

Meanwhile, other IOF units broke into nearby villages of Beit Qad and Deir Abu Da’eef but no arrests were reported.