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HEBRON (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces arrested 13 people in the West Bank overnight Sunday, Israel's army and locals said.

An Israeli army spokeswoman said six were detained in Nablus, three in Ramallah, two in Beit Ummar, one person in Jenin and one in Hebron.

Sadiq Saqar Abu Mariya, 15, and Yahya Falah Abu Mariya, 16, were identified by locals as those arrested in Beit Ummar following a raid on their family home.

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RAMALLAH, January 7, 2013 (WAFA) - The Israeli army arrested Monday 13 Palestinians in several raids across the West Bank, three of them minors ranging in age between 15 and 17, according to officials.

The three minors were arrested in Bet Ummar, a town north of Hebron, and Beit Fajjar near Bethlehem, a spokesman of the Popular Committee for Resisting Settlements in Beit Ummar told WAFA.

Sources said four people were arrested in the areas of Jenin and Tubas, as Israeli troops entered Jenin and nearby village Fakoua.

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Israeli forces arrest 9 in West Bank

BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces arrested 9 people overnight Monday, locals and Israel's army said.

An Israeli army spokeswoman said four people were detained in Bethlehem, two in Jenin, two in Nablus and one in Ramallah.

All detainees were taken for security questioning, she added.

Locals said soldiers raided al-Saf street in Bethlehem and arrested two people.

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IOF soldiers arrest son of martyr

NABLUS, (PIC)-- Israeli occupation forces (IOF) arrested the 22-year-old Rashid, the son of liberated prisoner Zuhair Lubada who died on 31/5/2012 one week after his release from Israeli jails.

The Ahrar center for prisoners’ studies and human rights said in a statement on Monday that IOF soldiers nabbed Rashid after breaking into his home and searching it.

Rashid’s mother said that a big number of troops stormed the family home, wreaked havoc in it, and maltreated all those inside.

She said that the soldiers confiscated computers in addition to 10000 Jordanian Dinars and 20000 Shekels.

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IOF arrests Palestinian prisoner's wife

RAMALLAH,(PIC)-- The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) have arrested early on Monday the wife of a Palestinian prisoner from "Al-Qassam Brigades", sentenced to life imprisonment seven times, where she was transferred to Ofer prison for interrogation.

Local sources Silwad town near Ramallah city in central West Bank said that the IOF released Worud Hammad after being interrogated in Ofer military prison west of Ramallah.

Noteworthy that Worud is the wife of an activist in the "Qassam Brigades", the military wing of Hamas movement, Moyyad Hammad who is sentenced to seven life terms, from Silwad east of Ramallah.

Hammad told PIC that the IOF stormed her home at 4 am and asked her to wear her clothes and to go for interrogation, noting that she refused to allow them to search her home because her children were asleep, and she refused to go out with them alone and, where she asked to accompany her father-in-law with her.

She added that the IOF transferred her to Ofer detention center where she was subjected to interrogation about her husband, detained since ten years, and his relations within the prison, and his friends, pointing out that the occupation has threatened her and her family against involvement in any activity against the occupation.

The IOF stormed the town of Silwad dawn today and arrested Hammad from her home in the town. The second Hebrew channel said the occupation army arrested citizens in Jenin, Nablus, al-Khalil, Bethlehem and Ramallah.

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