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BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) – Israeli forces raided Bethlehem in the southern West Bank in broad daylight Thursday and detained two Palestinian men after ransacking their homes.

Eyewitnesses told Ma’an via telephone that several Israeli military vehicles besieged home of 39-year-old Ahmad Ibrahim Ubeidallah in al-Saff neighborhood of Bethlehem before they detained him.

Ubeidallah’s wife and five children were watching as Israeli troops cuffed him and took him after they damaged the interior of the family house.

Ubeidallah had served eight years previously in Israel’s custody on charge of membership in the Islamic Jihad movement.

Separately, Israeli troops stormed Wadi Shahin neighborhood south of the Nativity Church and detained 20-year-old Sajid Nasser Salamah.

Earlier Thursday morning, Israeli forces raided the home of Muhammad Shehadah, who was murdered by undercover Israeli forces along with three others in March 2008, and blew up a barn in the courtyard.

A few days earlier, Israeli forces raided Shehadah’s house and detained his sons Shehadah and Hamdi.

An Israeli military spokeswoman did not immediately return calls.

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by IMEMC & Agencies

Thursday January 2, 2014] Undercover forces of the Israeli army have invaded the West Bank city of Bethlehem, kidnapping two Palestinians.

Local sources have reported that undercover soldiers, driving a local Palestinian car, infiltrated the Jerusalem-Hebron road in Bethlehem, and broke into a shopping center before kidnapping Sajed Abu Khashaba, 20.

The kidnapped Palestinian works at a local store in the shopping center; the soldiers also confiscated his mobile phone.

Furthermore, the army invaded Saff Street, in Bethlehem, kidnapped Ahmad Ezzat, 33, and confiscated his phone.

Eyewitnesses said that the soldiers also fired rounds of live ammunition and gas bombs, in the area.

On Wednesday night, several Israeli military jeeps kidnapped a student of Polytechnic University, in the southern West Bank district of Hebron.

The kidnapped Palestinian, Moneer Dofesh, was taken prisoner in the Nomra area of Hebron, and was moved to an unknown destination.

Also on Wednesday night, soldiers kidnapped at least 15 Palestinian children and a young man in the Tabaqa village, south of Doura, in the southern West Bank district of Hebron.