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BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces detained seven teenagers in arrests raids across the West Bank overnight Sunday, locals and Israel's army said.

Witnesses told Ma'an that over 10 Israeli military vehicles raided the al-Jabal al-Shamali, Khilleh al-Amoud, and al-Maajeen neighborhoods of Nablus and detained Bara Ghassan Thawqan, 18, Asem Mustafa al-Shinar, 16, and Yazan Zameer al-Nouri, 18.

In Tuqu village, southeast of Bethlehem, Israeli forces detained Moath Ibrahim al-Oumour, 18, Baha Aref al-Oumour, 18, Omar Sulaiman al-Oumour, 18, and Ahmad Mohammad al-Oumour, 18, locals said.

An Israeli army spokeswoman said 13 people were detained across the West Bank for engaging in "illegal activities."

Four were detained in Tuqu, six in Ramallah, one in Nablus, one in Tulkarem and one in Jenin, she added.

In March, a report by the UN Children's Fund described mistreatment of Palestinian children in Israeli prisons as "widespread."

UNICEF's March report, entitled "Children in Israeli Military Detention," said Israel was the only country in the world where children were systematically tried in military courts and gave evidence of practices it said were "cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment."

"Ill-treatment of Palestinian children in the Israeli military detention system appears to be widespread, systematic and institutionalized," it concluded, outlining 38 recommendations.

Over the past decade, Israeli forces have arrested, interrogated and prosecuted around 7,000 children between 12 and 17, mostly boys, UNICEF found, noting the rate was equivalent to "an average of two children each day."

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Local sources in the West Bank district of Bethlehem have reported that Israeli soldiers invaded the area on Sunday evening and on Monday at dawn, broke into and searched homes, and kidnapped six Palestinians.

The sources said that dozens of soldiers invaded the Teqoua’ village, east of Bethlehem, and kidnapped four teenagers.

The four have been identified as Ahmad Mohammad Al-’Amour, Baha’ Aref Al-’Amour, Moath Ibrahim Al-’Amour and Omar Suleiman Al-’Amour; all 18 years of age.

After violently breaking into their homes and searching the properties, the soldiers cuffed and blindfolded the four and took them to the Gush Etzion military and security base.

Soldiers also invaded the Saff Street, in the center of Bethlehem city, and handed Sami Mousa Abu Mfrarreh, 26, and Ahmad Ibrahim Abdullah, military warrants ordering them to head to Gush Etzion for interrogation.

On Sunday at dawn, dozens of soldiers invaded the Al-Obaidiyya town, east of Bethlehem, and kidnapped two youths identified as Mohammad Ali Abu Sarhan, and Mohammad Khalifa Jaraha, both 16 years of age.

Local sources said that the soldiers violently broke into the homes of the two kidnapped residents, and violently searched them.

On Sunday evening, medical sources said that two Palestinians were shot and injured by Israeli military fire in Qalqilia.

The army claimed the two tried to cut the barbed-wire fence close to the Annexation Wall in the area.

Also on Sunday evening, soldiers invaded the Al-Zaweya village, south of the northern West Bank city of Jenin.
Local sources said the soldiers were searching for resident Abboud Fawwaz Jarrar, but we was not home.

The invasion are part of daily violations carried out by Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank.

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10 kidnapped in West Bank

Local sources in the northern West Bank city of Nablus have reported that a number of Israeli military vehicles invaded the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and kidnapped three youths.

The sources said that the army invaded the city through its eastern side, advanced into the Al-Ma’ajeen neighborhood west of the city, and kidnapped Bara’ Ghassan Thouqan, 18, and Asem Montaser Ash-Shinnar, 16.

Asem is a student of the Najah University in Nablus, while Ash-Shinnar is the son of Mustafa, a university teacher imprisoned by Israel under arbitrary administrative detention orders without charges.

Both were cuffed, blindfolded and placed in military before being taken to an unknown destination.

Last month, Israeli soldiers kidnapped 13 members of the Islamic Bloc at the Najah University.

On Sunday evening, soldiers kidnapped one Palestinian, and injured two, after the army invaded Wadi Al-Louza neighborhood in Silwan, in occupied Jerusalem.

Soldiers also invaded the West Bank district of Bethlehem, and kidnapped six Palestinians.

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