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RAMALLAH (Ma’an) -- Israeli forces detained at least nine Palestinians, four of them minors, during overnight raids in the occupied Palestinian territory between Saturday and Sunday, Israeli and Palestinian sources reported.

The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) reported that Israeli forces detained five Palestinians in Jerusalem, without precising whether they were detained in annexed East Jerusalem or in the Jerusalem district of the occupied West Bank.

The organization identified the detainees as Faisal Shabaneh, 16, Mahmoud Abu al-Hawa, 17, Yousif Abu al-Hawa, 17, Ashraf Abu Jumaa, 17, and Ahmad Abu Sbeih, 18.

An Israeli army spokesperson told Ma’an that one Palestinian had been detained in Beit Anan and Qatanna, two villages in the Jerusalem district.
In the Bethlehem district, PPS reported that Anas Taqatqa and Khatab Thawabta were detained in the village of Beit Fajjar, while Muhammad Ibrahim Abu Yabis was detained in the village of Husan.

The army confirmed only one detention in Beit Fajjar, and another in Husan.

In the northern West Bank, PPS reported on the detention of Mamoon Shteiwi during clashes in the village of Kafr Qaddum in the Qalqiliya district earlier Saturday evening.

PPS further noted that seven Palestinians had been detained during overnight raids between Friday and Saturday, including former prisoner Randa al Shahatit in the Hebron district.

Israeli forces carry out detention raids across the occupied Palestinian territory on a near-nightly basis, with the UN recording an average of 95 weekly raids in the West Bank in 2016.

According to prisoners’ rights group Addameer, 7,000 Palestinians, 400 of them minors, were held in Israeli prisons as of October 2016.

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