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BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- Israeli forces detained at least 25 Palestinians in overnight and daytime raids in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem on Monday, Israeli and Palestinian sources said.

The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said in a statement on Monday that 15 Palestinians had been detained in predawn raids on Monday.

PPS said five Palestinians, identified as Ahmad Abu al-Hummus, Adam Mahmoud, Majd Mustafa, Qays Dirbas, and Qusay Ulayyan, were detained in the village of al-Issawiya in occupied East Jerusalem.

In the West Bank, the group said that three Palestinians were detained across the northern district of Tulkarem, identifying them as Murad Fathi Mousa, Imad Mirei Shehadah, and Uday Muhammad Salih.

In Nablus, Israeli forces detained Izz al-Din Tayseer Abd al-Haq after he was summoned by Israeli intelligence for questioning.

In the northernmost West Bank district of Jenin, Bahaa Fayiz Hamdan, 24, and Qusay Hasan Khaliliya, 22, were detained, PPS said, adding that Jenin native Mahdi al-Irouq was also detained at the Allenby crossing as he was traveling back to the West Bank from Jordan.

In the central West Bank district of Ramallah-al-Bireh, PPS said Israeli forces detained Ibrahim Salameh al-Arouri and Ahmad Hani al-Khodur during overnight raids.

In the southern West Bank, 22-year-old Malik Salih al-Qadi was detained in Bethlehem, PPS reported.

An Israeli army spokesperson told Ma’an that nine Palestinians had been detained in overnight raids in the West Bank. She said seven Palestinians were detained in five different locations across the Ramallah-al-Bireh district, in addition to one detained southeast of Hebron and one south of Hebron.

Meanwhile, locals sources reported that three Palestinians were detained by Israeli forces in East Jerusalem and the southern West Bank during the day on Monday.

The director of the Wadi Hilweh Information Center, Majdi al-Abbasi, told Ma’an that Israeli police officers stormed the Ein al-Luzah area in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan on Monday afternoon and set up several checkpoints in the area.

They then broke into home of Arafat Abu al-Hamam and assaulted his sons Muhammad, 17, and Shadi, 19, al-Abbasi said. The two brothers, he added, were violently beaten with rifle butts before being taken into custody.

Local committee spokesman Muhammad Ayyad Awad said Israeli soldiers and police officers stopped a vehicle at the main entrance of the Hebron-area town of Beit Ummar on Monday, and forced the driver, who was not identified to step out before detaining him and confiscating his vehicle.

According to Palestinian prisoners’ rights group Addameer, 7,000 Palestinians were held in Israeli prisons as of April.
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by IMEMC News

Israeli soldiers have kidnapped, overnight and at dawn Monday, at least nine Palestinians from their homes, in different parts of the occupied West Bank. The army claims uncovering a workshop for manufacturing weapons near Hebron.

The soldiers kidnapped one Palestinian in ‘Aroura own, north of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, a young man in Deir Abu Mashal village, northwest of Ramallah, and another Palestinian in Jaba’ town, south of Ramallah.

In addition, the soldiers to two Palestinians from their homes, in Biddo town, north of Jerusalem.

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that the soldiers also searched homes in Bethlehem, and kidnaped one Palestinian.

It added that the soldiers kidnapped two others Palestinians from their homes in Karma town, southwest of Hebron and in Bani Neim, east of the city.

The Israeli army said it located a workshop for manufacturing weapons in Surif town, north of Hebron, and confiscated a lathe machine and a rifle; no arrests were made.

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