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BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- Israeli forces detained at least six Palestinian in overnight raids Saturday across the occupied West Bank, according to the Israeli army.

An Israeli army spokesperson told Ma’an that two Palestinians were detained in the Nur Shams refugee camp in the northern West Bank district of Tulkarm, another in the village of Beita in the northern district of Nablus, one in the Qaddura refugee camp in the central district of Ramallah, and two in Beit Fajjar, a village in the southern district of Bethlehem.

Israeli forces carry out raids across the occupied Palestinian territory on a near-nightly basis. Although UN documentation estimates that the army has carried out a weekly average of 75 detention raids in the occupied West Bank so far in 2016, the average rose to 93 weekly raids from June onwards.

According to prisoners’ rights group Addameer, some 7,000 Palestinians were held in Israeli prisons as of July.

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