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An summon was handed to al-Khader resident Muhammad Ribhi Mousa by Israeli forces. Published by Maan
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HEBRON (Ma’an) -- Israeli forces detained at least nine Palestinians -- including a football player -- in raids in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, Palestinian and Israeli sources said.

At least five Palestinians were detained in and around the southern West Bank city of Hebron, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society said in a statement.

The organization identified the detainees as Yasin al-Rajabi and his son Shadi, Layth Noor al-Alami, Shadi Ibrahim Bahar, and Sami al-Daour.

Al-Daour is a football player from the Gaza Strip currently playing for Shabab al-Samu club, which is ranked in the first division of the West Bank league, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society said.

Israeli troops also stormed the southern West Bank town of Beit Ummar at dawn and detained three teenagers, including twin brothers, a local committee spokesman told Ma’an.

Muhammad Ayyad Awad identified the detainees as brothers Mamoon and Jamal Mahmoud al-Qam, 17, and Muataz Nayhal Bahar, 17.

Awad added that Israeli forces also delivered summons to a number of young men in the town.

Awad himself was detained for more than an hour, along with fellow Beit Ummar resident Khalid Hasan Abu Hashim, after he attempted to take photos of Israeli soldiers during the detention raid. He said the Israeli soldiers confiscated his camera.

East of Bethlehem, Mahmoud Nasri Salah, 24, was detained at the Container checkpoint, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society said.

Meanwhile, a young Palestinian man was injured by a rubber-coated steel bullet when clashes broke out during an Israeli army raid in the town of al-Khader south of Bethlehem.

Local sources told Ma’an that Israeli forces stormed al-Khader near the town’s historical gate and ransacked several homes before they delivered summons to three young men.

Palestinian youth reacted by throwing stones and Molotov cocktails at the Israeli soldiers. who fired rubber-coated bullets and tear gas canisters at the protesters.

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