Ramallah, June 2 (Petra) -- Israeli occupation forces on Tuesday launched a large-scale arrest campaign across several governorates in the occupied West Bank, arresting 31 Palestinians, including four female students from Birzeit University and several recently released prisoners.

According to the Palestinian Prisoners Club, the arrests were carried out during simultaneous raids on multiple areas of the occupied West Bank. Israeli forces reportedly stormed and searched dozens of homes, ransacking their contents and arrested individuals they claimed were wanted.

In a separate development, Israeli authorities demolished three homes in the Arab village of Kabul in the Galilee region in northern Israel, citing the absence of building permits.

The Higher Follow-Up Committee for Arab Citizens in Israel said Israeli bulldozers and engineering vehicles, accompanied by large numbers of police and border guards, entered the village and carried out the demolitions.

Meanwhile, extremist Israeli settlers torched two Palestinian vehicles and spray-painted racist slogans during a predawn raid on the village of Umm Safa, northwest of Ramallah.

The Umm Safa Village Council said a group of settlers infiltrated the village centre, setting fire to a vehicle belonging to council head Marwan Sabah and another owned by a local resident.

The illegal settlers spray-painted racist graffiti on several homes before leaving the area.

//Petra// AK