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RAMALLAH (Ma'an) – Israeli forces carried out predawn raids across the West Bank and East Jerusalem Thursday detaining 13 young men and teenage boys, the Palestinian Prisoner's Society reported.

Four of the detainees are from the al-Umour family in the village of Tuqu in southeast Bethlehem which Israeli troops raided also on Wednesday and detained 11 teenage boys.

Muhammad Abu Mufarrih and his brother Ahmad from Tuqu as well as Hasan Thawabta from Beit Fajjar south of Bethlehem were detained.

Israeli forces also detained 18-year-old Abd al-Rahman Naim Abd al-Rahman from the village of Deir Abu Mashal in northwest Ramallah district.

Five others from East Jerusalem identified as Sabir Ubeid, Muhammad Salih, Majid Abu Nijmah, Omar Shweiki and Ibrahim Abu Mayyala.

In a statement, the society identified the detainees Thursday as Muhammad Habis al-Umour, Abed Adel al-Umour, Ahmad Ibrahim Theib al-Umour, and Mousa Akram Muhammad al-Umour.

In Hebron district in the southern West Bank, Israeli troops raided the town of Tarqumiya and detained Rawhi Qabaja and his brother Tamir after ransacking their home.

Seven teenage boys were detained in different East Jerusalem neighborhoods, according to the statement. Muath and Muatazz Salayma, both aged 12, were detained from Ras al-Amoud neighborhood, while Ahmad al-Qawasma, 13, was detained from Shufat refugee camp.

Furthermore, Israeli forces detained Majdi Abu Ghazala from the Old City of Jerusalem. A Ma'an reporter in Jerusalem, who is Majdi's sister, said Israeli troops detained her 72-year-old father and her brother Ali until Majdi came from work and turned himself in.

In the Jabal al-Mukabbir neighborhood, Israeli forces detained Ashraf Uweisat and Faris Uweisat.

The statement added that Israeli troops raided the village of al-Jdeira in northwest Jerusalem and detained 19-year-old Muhammad Izz Al-Din.

A lawyer who works for the Prisoner's Society Mufid al-Hajj said Israeli troops stopped Palestinian citizen Nidal al-Fasfous while he returned home after he received medical treatment at a Jerusalem hospital following a work accident. Al-Hajj said the man was beaten brutally before he was released after interrogation.

An Israeli military spokeswoman said 16 Palestinians were detained overnight.

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