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HEBRON (Ma’an) -- Israeli forces detained at least five Palestinians in overnight detentions Wednesday across the occupied West Bank.

From the town of Beit Ummar in the southern district of Hebron, local activist Muhammad Ayyad Awad told Ma’an that Israeli forces raided the al-Bayyada, Irq al-Latun and Assideh neighborhoods of the town in the predawn hours of Wednesday.

According to Awad, Israeli soldiers raided and searched several homes in the area, detaining Omar Muhammad Khalil Awad, 16, and Udayy Issa Abd al-Khaleq al-Zakrawi, 22, a volunteer with the Palestinian Red Crescent emergency medical services.

Awad added that Israeli forces also raided the home of Kamel Nayif Ikhleil in search of his son, Nayif, 19, an engineering student at Birzeit University.

After they discovered that Nayif was not home, the soldiers ordered Ikhleil to bring him to the the Etzion military base in northern Beit Ummar to meet with Israeli intelligence authorities for unspecified reasons.

Later in the day, Awad said in a statement that Nayif had been detained by Israeli soldiers in the afternoon on Wednesday.

An Israeli army spokesperson told Ma’an that forces detained a total of two Palestinians overnight, identifying one from the village of Jeet in the Nablus district, and one from Qalqiliya.

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 to August.

According to prisoners’ rights group Addameer, some 7,000 Palestinians were held in Israeli prisons as of July.
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Israeli soldiers kidnapped, Wednesday, nine Palestinians, including a young woman and four members of her family, in different parts of the occupied West Bank.

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) said the soldiers kidnapped Nayef Kamal Ekhlayyel, 19, and Adel Issa Zakrawi, 20, from Beit Ummar town, north of Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank.

The two were first summoned for interrogation after the soldiers invaded and searched their homes at dawn, and summoned them for interrogation, and were taken prisoner at noon after they went to Etzion military base and security center. Two Palestinians were kidnapped during the invasion.

In Bethlehem, the soldiers kidnapped a young Palestinian man, in his twenties, after stopping him at military roadblock #300, leading to occupied Jerusalem, and took him to an unknown destination.

In addition, the soldiers kidnapped a young man, identified as Bassam Shaweesh, from the al-Far’a refugee camp, south of Tubas in central West Bank, after the army installed a roadblock at the main entrance of the camp.

Furthermore, the soldiers kidnapped a young woman, identified as Lana Bilal Summoudi, 19, and four of her relatives, after stopping them at the al-Jalama military roadblock, north of Jenin in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.

On Wednesday morning, a number of armored Israeli military vehicles invaded Palestinian agricultural lands, east of Rafah city, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.

On Tuesday at night, a number of soldiers attacked a Palestinian man after stopping him at a military roadblock, north of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, causing cuts and bruises that required hospitalization.

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