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RAMALLAH (Ma’an) -- At least 15 Palestinians were detained by Israeli forces during raids across the occupied West Bank overnight Sunday and before dawn, according to official Palestinian and Israeli army sources.
The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said in a statement Monday that 10 Palestinians were detained during the raids.

According to PPS, three Palestinians were detained from the Tulkarem-area towns of Deir al-Ghusun and Seida. The three were identified as Fouad al-Qab, Fadi Radad and Luay al-Ashqar.

An Israeli army spokesperson confirmed one detention from Deir al-Ghusun and two from Seida.

In the central district of Ramallah, PPS reported that Muhammad Abd al-Rahim Ghanam and Abd al-Latif Issa were detained.

From the Jerusalem district, Israeli forces detained 19-year-old Mustafa Hashlamoun and 21-year-old Eid Shabana.

In the northern West Bank, Muhammad Mahmoud Samar was detained from the Jenin-area town of al-Yamun, while 22-year-old Ibrahim Muhammad Hassan Noufil was detained from the town of Deir Sharaf in Nablus.

Israeli forces also detained Hussein Fahmi Najoum from the town of al-Auja in the Jericho district, PPS added.

The Israeli army confirmed to Ma’an one detention from al-Auja.

According to the Israeli army spokesperson, Israeli forces detained a total of nine Palestinians. In addition to the three from Tulkarem and one from Jericho, the spokesperson confirmed the detention of two “Hamas operatives” from the Qalqiliya district, and three from the Hebron district.

Israeli forces conduct night raids across the occupied Palestinian territory on a near-daily basis. According to UN documentation, the Israeli army carried out 185 military detention raids over the past two weeks.

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

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