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TULKAREM (Ma’an) -- Israeli forces detained seven Palestinians in the West Bank overnight Sunday, army officials said, while residents reported two others detained.

Locals told Ma’an that Israeli troops stormed the village of Seida north of Tulkarem before detaining Luay al-Ashqar and ransacking his home.

They said al-Ashqar is a prominent activist in support of recent hunger strikes in Israeli jails, and his brother Muhammad died in Israel’s Negev prison in 2007.

Another man, Arwa Abu Tamam, was also detained nearby, they said.

An Israeli army spokeswoman had no record of the Tulkarem detentions but said seven others were arrested overnight. Three people were detain in Nablus, two in Beit Ummar, and another in Hebron and Beita village in the northern West Bank.

Beit Ummar local committee spokesman Muhammad Ayyad Awad identified the detainees as 19-year-old Ibrahim Muhammad Hussein Adi, and 18-year-old Muhammad Ayman Ikhlayyil.

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On Monday 10th September, Israeli occupation forces arrested at dawn, a Palestinian after being shot in Bab al-Zawiyah center of Hebron, south of the West Bank.

Media sources reported that Israeli forces opened fire at Kamal al-Batsh and left him bleeding for a while without allowing to the Red Crescent's medical crew to provide him with treatment.

The sources said that Israeli forces arrested the injured Palestinian and transferred him to an unknown location.

The Israeli forces also arrested Ummar Abu Ajamiyeh after they raided his house in al-Fawwar refugee camp and took him to an unknown location.

The occupation also closed Wad al-Shajna Street, south of Durah and raided al-Berqa area in Yatta city, fired gas and tear bombs toward Palestinians.

Israeli army has increased its procedures through raids and military patrols in different residential areas in Hebron.

An army military patrol set a military checkpoint at the entrance of al-Tabaka village south of Durah, and harassed Palestinians.

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