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Brothers Luay and Shafiq Saabna. Published by Maan News
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BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- Israeli forces detained at least 13 Palestinians before dawn on Wednesday during overnight raids across the occupied West Bank, according to Palestinian and Israeli sources.

According to a statement from the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS). Israeli forces detained nine Palestinians from the Bethlehem district in the southern West Bank.

In the al-Duheisha refugee camp, Israeli forces detained four Palestinians, identified by locals as Mutasem Raqban, Ahmad Sarar, Ahmad al-Sarawi, and Akram al-Atrash, who was critically injured with three live bullets after clashes erupted during the raid. Al-Atrash was transferred to the Hadassah hospital in Jerusalem for treatment.

In The Bethlehem-area town of Nahalin, PPS reported that Omran Yusif Omran, Ibrahim Waleed Najajra, Adel Mahmoud Ghayatha, and Abd al-Karim Shakarna were detained by Israeli forces.

An Israeli army spokesperson confirmed to Ma’an three detentions from al-Duheisha and two others from the Bethlehem district.

The army also reported one detention from the Qalandiya refugee camp in the central West bank Ramallah district, though PPS made no mention of any detentions from the Ramallah area.

In the northern West Bank, PPS added that Israeli forces detained 23 year-old Amer Nahid Saroiji from the Tulkarem refugee camp, while 35-year-old Luay Saabna and his 25-year-old brother Shafiq Saabna were detained from the Jenin-area village of Fahma.

The Israeli army spokesperson made no mention of detentions in Tulkarem or Jenin.

Israeli raids in Palestinian towns, villages, and refugee camps are a daily occurrence in the occupied West Bank. The UN recorded an average of 95 weekly raids in the occupied West Bank in 2016, and 78 weekly raids on average thus far in 2017.

According to prisoners’ rights group Addameer, 6,500 Palestinians were held in Israeli prisons as of January, 300 of whom were minors.
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Updated: Army Abducts Nine Palestinians, Including A Seriously Wounded Young Man, In Bethlehem
by Maan News

Update: April 5, 2017. 10:20 am

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) in Bethlehem, has reported that the number of Palestinians, abducted by Israeli soldiers, at dawn Wednesday, in the West Bank governorate of Bethlehem, has arrived to nine, while one of them was shot and seriously wounded by army fire.

It stated that the soldiers abducted Mo’tasem Raqaban, Ahmad Issa Sarrar, and Bara’ Jamil Abu ‘Alia and Ahmad Sar’awi, from their homes in Deheishe refugee camp, south of Bethlehem.

The PPS further reported that the soldiers also invaded Nahhalin town, southwest of Bethlehem, searched homes and abducted five Palestinians, identified as Omran Yousef Omran, Ibrahim Waleed Najajra, Adel Mahmoud Ghayatha, Abdul-Karim Shakarna, and Akram al-Atrash.
It is also mentioning that the soldiers shot al-Atrash with three live rounds in his back and shoulder, seriously wounding him, before local medics moved him to Beit Jala governmental hospital.

In related news, the soldiers invaded Fahma village, south of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, violently searched homes and abducted three Palestinians, including a local lawyer whose car was illegally confiscated. The soldiers also invaded Tulkarem refugee camp, and abducted one Palestinian.

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Army Seriously Injures One Palestinian, Abducts Eight, In Bethlehem – Apr 5, 2017 @ 08:10

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, the Deheishe refugee camp, south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and clashed with local youths, before shooting and seriously injuring a young man, and abducted eight Palestinians during violent searches of homes, in Bethlehem district, including three in Deheishe.

The soldiers fired many live rounds, wounding a young man, identified as Akram Omran al-Atrash, 23, with three live rounds in his back and shoulder, seriously wounding him, before local medics moved him to Beit Jala governmental hospital.

His cousin, lawyer Farid al-Atrash, said the hospital is currently conducting all needed arrangements to move him to Hadassah Hospital, in Jerusalem, due to the seriousness of his condition.

The soldiers also invaded and ransacked several homes in the refugee camp, and abducted Ahmad Issa Sarrar, Ahmad Sar’awi, 22, and Mo’tasem Mazin Raqaban, 23.

Furthermore, the army invaded Doha town, west of Bethlehem, searched homes and abducted Bara’ Jamil Abu ‘Alia, 21.

In addition, the army invaded Nahhalin town, west of Bethlehem, also searched homes and abducted four Palestinians, identified as Ibrahim Waleed Najajra, 20, Omran Yousef Najajra, 21, Adel Mahmoud Ghayatha, 16, and Abdul-Karim Mohammad Shakarna, 20.

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