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JERUSALEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces arrested four Palestinians in East Jerusalem at dawn Thursday during raids on their homes.

Troops detained Adel Najib, 28, and Ibrahim Rezeq, 27, from the Old City. In Silwan, forces arrested 20-year-old Iyad al-Shalabi and 18-year-old Yazan Siam, a Ma'an reporter said.

The detainees' parents told Ma'an that forces ransacked their homes and confiscated clothes and shoes to identify the suspects from footage filmed at demonstrations.

An Israeli police spokesman had no immediate comment.

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by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies

Thursday at dawn March 14, 2013, Israeli soldiers invaded several Palestinian communities in different parts of the occupied West Bank, and kidnapped 23 Palestinians. The soldiers broke into and searched dozens of homes causing damage.

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n Jerusalem, undercover forces of the Israeli army kidnapped Yazan Siyam, 16, after breaking into his family’s home in Silwan town, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque. The soldiers also broke into and searched the homes of Siyam’s uncles in the town.

The Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan reported that the army violently attacked several members of Siyam’s family, after the soldiers used ladders to climb onto rooftops of their homes, and broke into them before attacking family members.

The undercover forces violently searched the homes and confiscated some of Yazan’s clothes and belongings.

The soldiers further kidnapped Ibrahim Riziq from the Old City of occupied East Jerusalem, after breaking into his home and searching it, and kidnapped ‘Adel Najeeb, and Eyad Ash-Shalabi from the As-Suwwana neighborhood close to the ancient walls of the Old City.

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