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GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Human rights advocates said Sunday that Israeli forces have detained seven Palestinian teenagers near the Gaza Strip's border with Israel in recent days.

On Saturday night, two 18-year-olds from Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza were seized east of Bureij refugee camp, and their families informed they are being held in an Israeli jail, a human rights officer said.

Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights said in a statement earlier on Sunday that five teens, also from Nuseirat camp, were detained on Friday morning in the same area.

They named the detainees as Salim Saleh Suleiman al-Sanee, 18, Fares Osama Suleiman al-Sanee, 19, Alaa Yahya Ahmed Said, 17 , Haitham Mohammed Khamis Khadra, 16, and Mohammad Matar, 17.

Israel's army said in a statement that the "suspects breached the security fence on both incidents" and were arrested and taken for investigation.