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by Kelly Joiner - International Middle East Media Center Editorial Group & Agencies


On Wednesday, Israeli forces raided several neighborhoods in the area in and around Hebron and nine Palestinians were detained, while Israeli settlers simultaneously attacked Palestinians according to reports from WAFA and PNN.

In Hebron, Tamer Jabarin, 22, and Mo’tasem al-Natsheh had their homes ransacked and were arrested by the Israeli military while Israeli settlers attacked several others.

Israeli settlers from Sosiya also attacked several Palestinians from the nearby village of Sosiya.

In Tal al-Rumeida neighborhood, six Palestinians were detained by Israeli soldiers after the army fired sound and light bombs. Their identities were not revealed.

Soldiers also fired grenades at other houses and buildings were broken into and searched at dawn.

In Beit Ummar, the Coordinator of the Popular Committee Against Settlements and the Apartheid Wall, Mohammad Awad reported that the Israeli military raided the town and arrested a teenager.

Israel has detained 77 Palestinian civilians in military prisons from Beit Ummar to date, and more than 45 of them are children under 18 years old according to Awad. This is a violation of international law and the Fourth Geneva Convention which forbids placing civilians of any age in military prison as well as the detention of children along with adults.

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HEBRON, July 25, 2012 (WAFA) – Israeli soldiers Wednesday arrested three Palestinians and settlers attacked several others in the southern West Bank governorate of Hebron, according to local and security sources.

They told WAFA that Israeli soldiers arrested Tamer Jabarin, 22, and Mo’tasem al-Natsheh in the city of Hebron after raiding their houses and ransacking their contents.

Coordinator of the popular committee against settlements and the Apartheid Wall in Beit Ummar, a town north of Hebron, Mohammad Awad told WAFA that Israeli forces raided the town and arrested a teenager.

Israel detains 77 Palestinians from Beit Ummar, more than 45 of them are under the age of 18, added Awad.

In addition, Israeli settlers in Sosiya settlement in the south Hebron hills attacked residents in the nearby village of Sosiya, while settlers in Hebron city assaulted several Palestinians in Tel al Rumeida neighborhood under the Israeli army protection.

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