RAFAH, (PIC)-- Israeli occupation forces wounded a Palestinian youth and kidnapped four others during an incursion into eastern Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, on Friday night, locals reported.

Security sources told PIC reporter that the IOF soldiers backed by tanks and bulldozers advanced east of Rafah in Shuka town and fired at citizens.

They said that Salah Abu Sneima, 18, was wounded while four other citizens were kidnapped and taken to the 1948 occupied Palestinian lands.

In the West Bank, IOF troops stormed the village of Jayyus, southeast of Qalqilia city, closed all its entrances and imposed a curfew.

Local sources said that the troops blocked worshippers from attending the Friday congregation and dispersed the weekly peaceful march organized by the villagers to protest IOF confiscation of their lands to build the separation wall.

The pointed out that the soldiers severely beat up a number of villagers including a mentally retarded youth.