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RAMALLAH (Ma’an) -- Israeli forces detained at least 27 Palestinians across the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem during raids on Thursday, the Palestinian Prisoners' Society and locals said.

The society said in a statement that Israeli forces detained three 13-year-old children from the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem. Three were identified as Hamza Abdullah, Muhammad Thaer Farhan and Qassam Shehada.

In Qalandiya refugee camp, just outside of Ramallah city in the central occupied West Bank, Israeli forces detained eleven Palestinians during raids in the camp.

The eleven were identified as Jihad al-Zaatri,14, Kahlid abu Ghoush,15, Abed Abu Sayma, 15, Muhammad Ahmad Dari,17, Saed Rukon, 18, Nour Shalabi, 18, Mousa Derar Darwesh, 20, Ali Bader, 22, Mousa Dari, Muhammad Jaber and Muhammad Ghrouf.
An Israeli army spokesperson did not immediately respond for comment on the raid.

In the northern occupied West Bank district of Jenin, Israeli forces detained five Palestinians identified as Ahmad Abdel-Afo Nazzal, Thaer Muhammad Abu Ghurab, Ahmad Rashid Abdul-Jaleel, Tariq Ahmad Kameel and Hussam Dhoun.

In Halhul, a small village just ouside Hebron in the southern occupied West Bank, the PPS said Israeli forces detained four Palestinians identified as Haitham Khalil Ayyad, Hani Masalmah and Muhammad Ahmad al-Fakhouri.

In Jericho, Israeli forces detained Ahmad Kahlil al-Sheikh Ibrahim, 26, from Aqbat Jabr refugee camp, the largest camp in the West Bank.

A man from the Tulkarem district, identified as Taha Hassan Elimi, was also detained in the Jericho district as he crossed through Allenby border crossing on his way home from Jordan.

Not included in the PPS statement, locals said a man identified as Khalid Atta Adawi, 30 and from Qusra village in Nablus, was detained during an Israeli military raid of the village.

Locals said Israeli soldiers also raided a municipal council hall in Qusra, broke the main door, interior lighting and did a full search of the hall.

The 27 detained on Thursday joined the nearly 7,000 Palestinians currently being held in Israeli jails, many of whom were detained during the near-daily raids carried out by Israeli military forces on Palestinian towns and villages.

Such raids are often carried out in areas under full Palestinian jurisdiction and frequently lead to clashes between Palestinian residents and Israeli military forces.
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by IMEMC & Agencies

Israeli soldiers have kidnapped, overnight and at dawn Thursday, at least 27 Palestinians, including children, in different parts of the occupied West Bank, including Jerusalem.

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that the soldiers kidnapped three children in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, in occupied Jerusalem.

The three, Hamza Abdullah, 13, Mohammad Tha’er Farhan, 13, and Qassam Shehada, 13, are from Qalandia refugee camp.

Also in Jerusalem, the soldiers kidnapped Khaled Abu Ghosh, 15, Abed Abu Saima, 15, Mousa Dirar Darweesh, 20, Ali Bader, 22, Musa Dari, Mohammad Ahmad Dari, 17, Mohammad Jaber, Mohammad Ghrouf, Jihad Za’tary, 14, Sa’ad Rokon, and Nour Shalabi, 18.

In Jenin, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, the soldiers stormed and ransacked many homes, interrogated families and kidnapped seven Palestinians identified as Mo’tasem Mahmoud Kamil, Tareq Ahmad Kamil, Mo’men Nasri Abu ar-Rob, Ahmad Abdulafu Nazzal, Thaer Mohammad Abu Ghorab, Ahmad Rashed Abdul-Jaleel and Husam Ezzat Dahhoun, 38.

In Hebron, the soldiers kidnapped Khalil Haitham Ayyad, Hani Masalma and Mohammad Ahmad al-Fakhouri, while Dhoha Jihad Hasan al-Baw, 18 from Halhoul town near Hebron, who went missing a few days ago, was taken prisoner in Jaffa city.

Dhoha is the sister of Hasan Jihad al-Baw, 22, from Halhoul town, a law student of the Al-Quds University, who was killed by Israeli army fire, after a soldier shot him in the heart, on November 14, 2015.

Furthermore, the soldiers invaded Aqbat Jabr refugee camp, in Jericho, and kidnapped Ahmad Khalil Ibrahim, 26, while residents Taha Hussein Oleymi, from Tulkarem, was kidnapped on the al-Karama border terminal, while traveling back home from Jordan.

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