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RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces detained at least eight Palestinians in predawn raids across the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, Israeli and Palestinian sources said.

The Palestinian Prisoner's Society said in a statement that three Palestinians were detained in Jenin, identified as Majd Husni Abu Shamla, Muhammad Ziyad Alawna, and Yasser Ali Abu Muallah.

The society said that Israeli forces also detained Othman Kaabnah and Khalid Abu Namous in Jericho and Tariq Khalil in al-Eizariya.

An Israeli army spokesperson confirmed that six Palestinians were detained, including one in the district of Tulkarem, two in Jenin, one in Ramallah, one in Bethlehem, and one in Jericho.

She said that one detainee in Jenin district and another in Ramallah were "Hamas operatives," while the others were detained for "illegal activity."

Israeli forces have detained hundreds of Palestinians since a wave of unrest swept the occupied Palestinian territory at the beginning of October.

Palestinian prisoners' rights group Addameer estimated in December that Israel was holding 6,800 Palestinian prisoners, including 470 children.
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Israeli soldiers kidnapped, overnight and at dawn Wednesday, eight Palestinians, including two children (12 and 15) after the army broke into their homes, and searched them, in different parts of the occupied West Bank.

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that the soldiers invaded a number of communities in Jericho, and kidnapped two Palestinians, identified as Othman Ka'abna and Khaled Abu Namous.

The soldiers also kidnapped a Palestinian, identified as Tareq Khalil, in the al-'Ezariyya town, near Jerusalem.

In addition, the soldiers invaded Deir Samet town, south of the southern West Bank district of Hebron, and kidnapped two children, identified as Odah Abdul-Basset al-Arroub, 12, and his brother Issa, 15, and took them to the Etzion military base.

The army also invaded the northern West Bank district of Jenin, kidnapped three Palestinians, identified as Majd Hosni Abu Shamla, Yasser Ali Abu M'alla and Mohammad Ziad 'Alawna, and summoned Mohammad Khozeimiyya for interrogation.

In related news, eighteen Palestinians, including three medics, were injured, Wednesday, after Israeli soldiers assaulted dozens of residents protesting the demolition of a home, in Shu'fat, in Jerusalem.

Also on Wednesday, the soldiers demolished an under construction Palestinian home, in Jabal al-Mokabber town, in Jerusalem.

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