BEIT HANUN, (PIC)-- The IOF troops kidnapped at noon Monday 49 Palestinian citizens most of them children and patients near the Beit Hanun crossing, northern Gaza Strip, after they invaded the area amid gunfire to quell the human chain formed by Gaza children at the pretext that they threw stones at the soldiers.

Sources in the popular committee against the siege which supervised the human chain stated that most of the detainees were children living in the area and patients waiting to be allowed to travel abroad for medical treatment.

In the West Bank, the IOF troops kidnapped on the same day seven Palestinian citizens, six of them from the same family, during a quick incursion into the Nablus city.

Palestinian eyewitnesses reported that Israeli special troops boarding a truck laden with vegetables infiltrated into the Khallat Al-Amud neighborhood in Nablus amid intensive gunfire and kidnapped a number of Palestinians who were present inside a grocery there before withdrawing.

The eyewitnesses added that a number of Israeli armored vehicles stormed the neighborhood to cover the withdrawal of the Israeli special force.