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ERUSALEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces on Wednesday detained a 14-year-old Palestinian boy from his school in Silwan in occupied East Jerusalem after storming the campus.

Issam Abbassi, the head of a Silwan parents committee, said that Israeli forces raided the school, searching for a Palestinian "suspected of throwing stones."

They then detained Jibreel al-Awar, 14, and issued a police summons to the head of the school for interrogation.

The head of the Jerusalem detainees committee, Amjad Abu Asab, said that Israeli troops detained another three Palestinians from Ras al-Amoud and Silwan overnight Tuesday.

The detainees were identified as Malek Shweki, Muhammad Nasser, and Munater Salaymah.

Hundreds of Palestinians have been detained across occupied East Jerusalem since a wave of unrest swept the occupied Palestinian territory last month.

This includes dozens of children, many of them detained on suspicion of throwing stones.

Rights group Defense for Children International Palestine found in July that in the first half of 2014, "86 percent of Palestinian children experienced some form of physical violence during their arrest or interrogation."

The group added: "Ill treatment of Palestinian children remains widespread and systematic in the Israeli military detention system as children arrested by Israeli forces arrive at Israeli interrogation centers blindfolded, bound and sleep deprived."