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by IMEMC News

Israeli soldiers have kidnapped, on Wednesday at dawn, thirteen Palestinians, including two women and five children, after invading and searching their homes, in different part of occupied Jerusalem.

The Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan (Silwanic) in Jerusalem said the soldiers kidnapped Jihad al-Ghazzawi, from her home in Ras al-’Amoud in Silwan, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Al-Ghazzawi has been previously repeatedly detained, fined and denied access to the Al-Aqsa Mosque, for countering invasions by Israeli extremists into the holy site.

The Israeli Police kidnapped another woman, identified as Ghada Odetallah, 42, from Shu’fat neighborhood in the center of Jerusalem, after interrogating her in their station in Neve Yaakov illegal colony, built on Palestinian lands in Beit Hanina, north of Jerusalem. Odetallah is a married mother of five children, Silwanic said.

On Tuesday at night, the Israeli army and a number of related media agencies published a picture of Odetallah, claiming she intended to carry out an attack.

In addition, soldiers kidnapped four Palestinians after invading their homes in Hizma village, northeast of Jerusalem.

They have been identified as Mohammad Jareh Salaheddin, Salah Askar, Abdullah Bassam and Khaled Suleiman Abu Khalil.

In Silwan town, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the soldiers also stormed and searched homes, and kidnapped Suleiman al-A’war, 14, Ibrahim Abdul-Razeq, 14, Mohammad an-Natsha, 16, Aziz Asaliyya, 16, Baha' al-Bazlameet, 19, Soheib Atef Edrees, 14, and Soheib Ghassan Edrees, 14.

In related news, dozens of invaded various, on Wednesday at dawn, several parts of the southern West Bank district of Hebron, and kidnapped 26 Palestinians from their homes, after searching them, and two in Bethlehem.

On Wednesday at dawn and Tuesday at night, soldiers kidnapped four Palestinians in the West Bank districts of Ramallah and Nablus.
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JERUSALEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces on Wednesday morning detained seven Palestinians across occupied East Jerusalem, locals said.

During a raid in the Silwan neighborhood, Israeli forces reportedly entered and ransacked a number of homes in the al-Thawri, Wad Qaddum, and Ras al-Amoud areas and detained four Palestinians.

A lawyer from prisoners' rights group, Muhammad Mahmoud, identified the detainees as Ibrahim Abdl-Razzak, 14, Muhammad al-Natsha, 16, Aziz Asila, 16, and Baha Bazlamit, 19. The four were transferred to Oz police station in the Jabal al-Mukabbir neighborhood.

Israeli troops also detained Suhaib Ghassan Idrees, 14, and Suhaib Atef Idrees,14, according to Amjad abu Asab, the head of the PA Committee for Prisoners' Affairs n Jerusalem.

Israeli forces also detained Jihad Ghazzawi after raiding her home and taking her to an Israeli police station on Salah al-Din Street.

An Israeli police spokesperson told Ma'an he had no information on the arrests.

Over 1,000 Palestinians have been detained since the beginning of the month, including around 150 children, according to Palestinian prisoners' rights group Addameer.

Around half of those detained have been from occupied East Jerusalem, as part of an Israeli government crackdown on the area amid ongoing violence.

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