The IDF arrested five Palestinian Arabs in Judea and Samaria Monday night, including two men with ties to the radical Islamic Jihad movement, witnesses told AFP on Tuesday.
In a pre-dawn raid in Beit Ummar village just north of the southern city of Hevron, troops arrested Wahid Abu Marya, 45, who spent years in Israeli prisons over his ties to Islamic Jihad, witnesses said.
They said dozens of troops had surrounded his house at around 3:00 am (0100 GMT) and opened fire when he initially failed to respond to calls to come out, causing part of the house to collapse. They then arrested him.