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RAMALLAH (Ma’an) -- Israeli forces detained at least 22 Palestinians on Thursday including a woman and three minors across the occupied Palestinian territory in overnight raids, according to Palestinian and Israeli sources.

The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society said in a statement that Israeli forces detained Issa Abdul-Qudos, Omar Abu Isaac, Sufian al-Natshah, Khalil Abbassi, 59, Abdul-Azizi Abbassi, 57, Fadi al-Juba, and Hanadi al-Halawani from the Jerusalem area.

In the village of Silwad and al-Jalazun refugee camp in the central West Bank district of Ramallah, Israeli forces detained Musab Ahmad Hamned, Waleed Dawood Hammad, Ameer Majdi al-Rumhi, and Muhammd Mahdi al-Rumhi.

Israeli forces also detained Yasser and Hazem Muhammad Amarnah and Fursan Khaled Amarnah from the northern West Bank district of Jenin.

In Nablus, Israeli forces detained Osama Mousa Fadel and two minors Ayhamd Dawood Dwiqat, 16, and Ahmad Ayman Qanaze, 15.
Israeli troops also detained Salwa Jamal Fakhri Hayyan,14, from the southern West Bank district of Bethlehem and Imad Suliman Khuli, 24, from Qalqiliya in the northern West Bank.

Bilal Rajab and Musallam Ishtiya were detained in the northern West Bank district of Salfit.

Israeli troops also detained Sufian Tureky Bahar, 44, from Beit Ummar in the southern West Bank district of Hebron.

A spokesperson from the Israeli army told Ma’an a total of 15 Palestinians were detained overnight Wednesday for “illegal activities” -- one in Hebron, one in the Bethlehem area, seven near Ramallah, two in the Qalqiliya district, and three in the northern West Bank district of Tulkarem.

The overnight raids come as Palestinians face severe movement restrictions, as Israeli authorities shut down all movement through checkpoints in and out of the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip for the Jewish holiday of Purim.

Israeli forces routinely detain Palestinians throughout the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, often on the pretext of perceived security threats.

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has recorded a weekly average 94 search and arrest operations by Israeli forces into the West Bank since the beginning of 2016.

According to prisoners' rights organization Addameer, at least 7,000 Palestinians were held prisoner by Israel as of February, 406 of them minors, and 108 under the age of 16.
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Israeli soldiers invaded, on Thursday at dawn, the West Bank districts of Ramallah and Jenin, searched several homes and kidnapped five Palestinians.

The army invaded Silwad town, east of the central West Bank district of Ramallah, surrounded many neighborhoods and invaded them, before violently searching homes. The soldiers also used military dogs in the search.

Local sources said the soldiers kidnapped Mos’ab Ahmad Hamed, 26, and Waleed Daoud Hammad, 22, and took them to an unknown destination.

In addition, dozens of soldiers invaded Ya'bad town, southwest of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, searched and ransacked homes, and kidnapped Yasser Mohammad Ali Amarna, his brother Hazem, and Forsan Khaled Amarna.

The soldiers also invaded the home of Khaled Zobeidi, before forcing him and his family out in the cold, and searched the property.

On Wednesday evening, the soldiers kidnapped a Palestinian man, and a child, in two separate invasions into Jenin and Bethlehem.
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Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Wednesday evening, a Palestinian man near the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, and a child near Bethlehem.

The soldiers kidnapped Emad Suleiman al-Khouly, 28, from Azzoun town, east of the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, and took him to an unknown destination.

The Israeli army said the Palestinian was walking “close to the Maale Shomron colony," built on Palestinian lands, east of Qalqilia.

In addition, the soldiers kidnapped a Palestinian child, as she was walking near the Gush Etzion Junction, south of the West bank city of Bethlehem.

The child, 14, who remained unidentified until the time of this report, is from Beit Fajjar town, south of Bethlehem.

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