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JERUSALEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces arrested 11 Palestinians, including a Fatah leader, in East Jerusalem overnight, a lawyer told Ma'an Wednesday.

Muhammad Mahmoud, a lawyer for the prisoner rights group Addameer, told Ma'an Israeli forces detained Abeer Ziad from her home in Jerusalem.

Ziad is a Fatah leader in the Jerusalem district, Mahmoud said.

Additionally, Israeli forces arrested Muatasim Gheith, Hamza Shweiki, Muhammad Aziz Uweis, Majd Abdullah Uweis, Muhammad Hussein Uweis, Ayyub Abu Asab, Luay Zaatra, Hussein Darwish, Ahmad Gharib, and Muhammad Zghayyar in Jerusalem, the lawyer said.

An Israeli army spokeswoman told Ma'an soldiers detained 19 Palestinians elsewhere in the West Bank overnight.

She said one was detained near Ramallah, five near Bethlehem, and 13 near Hebron.

Israeli forces regularly carry out overnight detention raids in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, usually on the pretext of security questioning.

Israel occupied East Jerusalem in 1967 and later annexed it in a move never recognized abroad.
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by IMEMC & Agencies

Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded various neighborhoods in occupied East Jerusalem, and kidnapped twelve Palestinians, including one woman, after breaking into their homes and searching them.

Local sources said the soldiers invaded and ransacked the home of ‘Abeer Zayyad, in the ath-Thoury neighborhood, in Silwan town, and kidnapped her.

Zayyad is a political leader of the Fateh Movement of President Mahmoud Abbas, in Jerusalem.

Soldiers also kidnapped Hamza Shweiki and Mohammad Zghayyar, from the ath-Thoury neighborhood.

In addition, soldiers invaded Ras al-‘Amoud area in Silwan, and kidnapped Mohammad ‘Aziz ‘Oweis, Majd Abdullah ‘Oweis, Mohammad Hussein ‘Oweis, Ayyoub Abu ‘Assab, Luay Za’atra, Hussein Darwish, Ahmad Gharib and Mo’tasem Gheith.

Another Palestinian has also been kidnapped near the Qalandia terminal, north of occupied East Jerusalem.

All kidnapped Palestinians have been moved to a number of interrogation centers in occupied Jerusalem.