Israeli soldiers blindfold and tie up elderly couple in terrifying West Bank ordeal

Seventy-five-year-old Wajdan Tawil was awake for dawn prayers at 4am on Thursday when she heard gunfire outside her home in the occupied West Bank. Suddenly she and her husband Najih Tawil, 89, both US citizens of Palestinian origin, heard the sound of a door-breaching device. Before they knew it, seven Israeli troops were entering their home, pointing rifles at the couple. “They said to us: ‘Sit here. Don’t move.’ They tied our hands together and blindfolded us,” Mrs Tawil told The National over the phone from Al Bireh, a town in the occupied West Bank. “They pushed us into the living room and made us sit down.”