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BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- Israeli forces overnight Tuesday detained 33 Palestinians from the occupied West Bank, including 20 from the Hebron area, locals told Ma'an.

Five Palestinians were detained from Nablus, two while crossing Israeli military checkpoints, according to Palestinian security sources.

Fathi Muhammad Abdul-Rahman, 29, was detained at the Zaatara checkpoint in south Nablus, where a member of Palestinian security was detained later in the day after allegedly carrying a knife.

Israeli forces raided the village of Beit Furik east of Nablus and gave the family of former prisoner Nimer Sedki al-Haj Muhammad a notice for home demolition, the sources added. The prisoner had been released from Israeli custody and deported to Gaza Strip, but his family remains in the home.

Emad Muflih Hanini and Yazan Mahmoud Nasrallah Hanini, both 21, were also detained from the village after home raids, and Hamza Muhammad Saleh was detained in Nablus city.

An Israeli army spokesperson confirmed four Palestinians detained in Nablus, seven in the Ramallah area, four near Bethlehem, as well as six south of Hebron.

An Israeli army spokesperson also confirmed 12 Palestinians detained from Hebron, ten of whom were "Hamas operatives.”
Palestinian youths reportedly threw Molotov cocktails at Israeli troops during a detention raid that took place in the Tubas district, but no injures reported, the army added.

Over 1,000 Palestinians have been detained by Israeli forces this month, according to prisoners' rights group Addameer and Ma'an reports.

Hebron under fire

The detentions in the Hebron area came hours after Israeli forces shot dead three Palestinian men on Tuesday after alleged stabbing attacks.

While detentions have been carried out throughout the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, many of those detained have been from the Hebron area for alleged affiliation with the Hamas movement.

Of the 20 detained overnight Tuesday in the area was a member of the activist group Youth Against Settlements, Muhammad Ahmad Zghayyar.

The group said in a statement that Israeli intelligence “threatened to arrest all the group’s activists who continue to organize popular peaceful activities and document attacks on the Palestinians by Israeli occupation forces and settlers.”

During the day on Tuesday, Noura Hatem Abdul-Aziz,19, and her sister Jihan,17, were detained near Hebron's Ibrahimi Mosque for allegedly carrying knives, a Palestinian military liason told Ma'an.
Noura was later released and Jihan is scheduled for a trial on Thursday in Ofer jail, according to Amjad al-Najjar, head of the Palestinian Prisoners' Society in Hebron.

Israeli forces also detained eight Palestinians, including a lawyer, during a protest demanding that Israeli authorities deliver the bodies of Palestinians killed by military forces.

Since the beginning of October, 18 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces across Hebron district -- including five children.

The majority were shot dead in Hebron city -- the highest death toll outside of Jerusalem -- in most cases after Israel alleges they attempted to carry out stabbing attacks on Israelis.
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by IMEMC & Agencies

Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, various parts of the southern West Bank district of Hebron, and kidnapped 26 Palestinians from their homes, after searching them. The soldiers also kidnapped two Palestinians in Bethlehem.

Media sources in Hebron said the soldiers searched and ransacked dozens of homes in the city, and kidnapped fifteen Palestinians.

They have been identified as Mustafa Shawar, Nidal Omran al-Qawasmi, Ayman Shaker Joneidi, Mohammad Zghayyar, Obeida Daoud Rajabi, Zeid Akram al-Joneidi, Zeid Akram al-Qawasmi, Mohammad Misk, Dirar Rabea’ Abu Minshar, Eyad Abdul-Majid Shabana, Sobhi Maher Omar, Jalal Shweiki, Khaled Jabr Hajajra, Ammar al-Batsh, Bilal Abdul-Aziz, and Fayes Ibrahim Misk.

The soldiers also invaded the al-‘Arroub refugee camp, and kidnapped Shamekh at-Teety, his brother Abdul-Karim, Mohammad Hasan al-Laqta, Majed at-Teety, and Adam Abu Kheiran.

Two Palestinians, identified as Hazem Abu Zeid and Zakariyya Nabil al-Qeeq, have been kidnapped in Doura town, south of Hebron.

In Bani Neim town, northeast of Hebron, soldiers kidnapped Hazem Mohammad Tarayra and Fadi Bassam Tarayra, while resident Mohammad Ahmad Haddoush has been kidnapped in Surif town, in addition to Sakhr Yousef Hammad in Yatta town, south of Hebron.

The Hebron office of the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that the soldiers kidnapped more than 300 Palestinians, including children, in the district since the beginning of this month.

In the Bethlehem district, soldiers invaded the home of Mousa Abdul-Rahman Badawi in the al-Manar area, near Beit Fajjar, and used it as a military post and a monitoring tower.

The soldiers also invaded and searched homes in the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, kidnapped Mohammad Omar Ziyada, 20, and summoned Ayman Ahmad Hammoud, 22, and Mohammad Omar Ziyada, 20, for interrogation in the Etzion military base.

Late on Tuesday at night, soldiers kidnapped Jamal Oleyyan Rabay'a, 37, from the al-‘Obeydiyya town east of Bethlehem, after stopping him on the "Container Roadblock," northeast of Jerusalem.
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