Israeli forces arrest Hebron-area mayor in West Bank raids

Israeli occupation soldiers arrested the mayor of a town in the Hebron governorate on Thursday as they carried out raids across several areas of the occupied West Bank, reported the Palestinian news agency Wafa.

Wafa, citing security sources, said the forces raided a number of neighbourhoods in the town of al-Samou’, south of Hebron, and detained its mayor, Ibrahim Mahmoud Ahmed Rawashdeh.

In a separate raid to the west, in the town of Beit Awa, they arrested Hamam Muhammad Badawi Shalash, a former prisoner, after storming his home, searching it and vandalising its contents.