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RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces detained at least 11 Palestinians across the occupied West Bank, on predawn Monday, and delivered summon notices to two Palestinians.

According to Palestine Prisoner’s Society (PPS), Israeli forces detained one Palestinian in the southern West Bank district of Hebron. He was identified as Hussam Atef Sweilem, 24.

In the Issawiya neighborhood, in the central West Bank district of Jerusalem, three Palestinians were detained. Two of the three were identified as Amar Alyan, 24, and Yazan Abeed.

PPS said that the third detainee was physically assaulted by Israeli forces after Tarawih Muslim prayers and then detained.

In the Silwad village, in the central West Bank district of Ramallah, Israeli forces detained one Palestinian and identified him as Muad Abed al-Nasser Hamad.

In the central West Bank district of Jericho, one Palestinian was detained and identified as Muhammad Taysir Daras.

In the northern West Bank district of Tulkarem, another five Palestinians were detained. PPS identified them as Rabhi Adnan Hanoun, 21, Hisham Riad Farijj, 23, Anas Mahmoud Jayousi, Asimri Ahed Fawazaa, 28, Bashar Mahmoud Fawazaa, 28.

According to prisoners rights group Addameer, there are 5,450 Palestinian prisoners being held in Israeli prisons.
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by IMEMC News
May 6, 2019 3:13 PM

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers abducted, overnight and on Monday at dawn, eleven Palestinians during invasions and violent searches of homes, in several parts of the occupied West Bank.

The PPS office in Tulkarem, in northern West Bank, said the soldiers abducted five Palestinians, identified as Ribhi Adnan Hannoun, 21, Hisham Riyad Freij, 23, Anas Mahmoud Jayyousi, Aseemri Aahed Fawaz’a, 28, and Bashar Mahmoud Fawaz’a, 28.

In occupied Jerusalem, the soldiers abducted Ammar Oleyyan, 24, and Yazan Obeid, from the al-‘Isawiya town, in addition to a third Palestinian, who remained unidentified at the time of this report, and was taken prisoner near the al-Aqsa Mosque after dawn prayers.

In addition, the soldiers abducted Moath Abdul-Nasser Hamed, from Silwad town, northeast of Ramallah, in central West Bank.

The soldiers also abducted Husam Atef Sweilem, 24, from the al-‘Arroub refugee camp, north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron.

Another Palestinian, identified as Mohammad Taiseer Darras, was abducted from his home in Jericho.

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