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RAMALLAH (Ma’an) -- Israeli forces carried out multiple predawn military raids across the occupied West Bank on Monday, detaining 14 young men, according to a statement from the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS).

Six of the detainees were from the Hebron district in the southern occupied West Bank, and were identified as Qutada Rasmi Dufish, 25, Malik Muhammad Abu Aisha, 32, Abdullah Ubeido Tamimi, Khallaf Talahma, Ayid Ahmad al-Faqih and his son Akram.

In the Nablus district in the northern West Bank, Israeli forces detained Ali Najih Safadi, his brother Isam, Saadi Safadi, and Najih Safadi.
Sayyid Muhammad Jabri and Muhammad al-Kurd, 18, were detained from the Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem.

Israeli forces also detained Amjad Abu Zuhri, 40, and Munthir Aziz Ikbariyya, 54, both from the town of Shweika in the northern district of Tulkarem.

An Israeli army spokesperson confirmed 11 of the detentions, including the two from Bethlehem, four in Nablus, two in Tulkarem, and three out of the six reported detentions from Hebron.

Raids in the Hebron area came amid clashes in the town of Dura, as the villages of Bani Naim and Sair remained under strict siege, with Bani Naim entering its second consecutive week of blockade.

According to prisoners’ rights group Addameer, 7,000 Palestinians were held in Israeli prisons as of May, including 414 minors. The organization estimates that 40 percent of Palestinian men have been detained by Israel at some point in their lives.

The majority were detained in predawn detention raids carried out by the Israeli military, including in areas under full Palestinian jurisdiction according to the Oslo Accords.

Such raids often lead to clashes between locals and Israeli military forces entering their communities, regularly resulting in injury and sometimes death of Palestinian residents.

According to UN data, Israeli forces have conducted an average of 88 raids in the West Bank each week in 2016.

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