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BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- Israeli forces detained two Palestinians in the southern occupied West Bank district of Hebron during predawn military raids on Sunday, according to an Israeli army spokesperson.

Israeli forces raided al-Arroub refugee camp northeast of Hebron city, and detained 23-year-old Abdullah Abu Raya.

The spokesperson told Ma’an that Israeli forces also raided the village of Beit Ula northwest of Hebron and detained an unidentified Palestinian young man.

Meanwhile, Israeli forces reportedly set up a checkpoint at the al-Fawwar refugee camp southwest of Hebron, and searched passing cars. Another checkpoint was also set up at the southern entrance to Hebron city, which is located near the illegal Israeli settlement of Beit Hagai, Israeli media sites reported.

Israeli raids in Palestinian towns, villages, and refugee camps are a daily occurrence in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, with a weekly average of 78 search and detention raids carried out since the start of 2016, and with 108 carried out just in the previous week, according to UN documentation.

Israeli forces commonly detain Palestinians during raids without evidence of any wrongdoing, subsequently sentencing the detainees for up to six-month renewable intervals without charge or trial and based on undisclosed evidence.
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by IMEMC News

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) said that Israeli soldiers have kidnapped, on Sunday at dawn, four Palestinians in the West Bank districts of Tulkarem, Jerusalem and Hebron, after invading their homes, and took them to interrogation centers.

The Tulkarem office on the PPS, in the northern part of the West Bank, said the soldiers invaded the city, searched a number of homes and kidnapped a Palestinian man, identified as Hatem Sharif Abdul-Latif, 52.

In Jerusalem, the soldiers kidnapped a child, identified as Fadi Shalloudi, and a former political prisoner, identified as Nour Shalabi. The Jerusalem office of the PPS said Shalloudi was held under house arrest for eight months prior to his abduction.

The soldiers also invaded the al-‘Arroub refugee camp, north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and kidnapped a young man, identified as Abdullah Abu Rayya, 23.

The PPS stated that the soldiers have kidnapped 61 Palestinians in different parts of the West Bank over the last two days, and that 30 of them are from Jerusalem, and 25 from Hebron.

Earlier Sunday, several Israeli army jeeps invaded the al-Asakra village, east of Bethlehem, and summoned Khaled Mohammad Asakra, in his forties, for interrogation in the Etzion military base and security center.

The PPS said al-Asakra was a former political prisoner who was held by Israel for more than twenty years.

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