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HEBRON (Ma’an) -- Israeli forces detained at least four Palestinians during predawn raids on Monday in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian and Israeli sources said.

Locals told Ma’an that Israeli forces detained 20 year-old Marwan Ashour after raiding his house in the Abu Sneineh neighborhood in the center of Hebron city in the southern West Bank.

Elsewhere in the Hebron district, locals said that Malik Taysir Ghneimat was detained by Israeli forces in the village of Surif.

An Israeli army spokesperson confirmed both detentions to Ma’an.

Official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported the detention of two other Palestinians, both 17 years old, elsewhere in the Hebron district.

Meanwhile, Palestinian sources said that Israeli forces also raided and thoroughly searched a home belonging to the al-Ghaith family in the southern Hebron district, breaking the front door, and confiscating a car belonging to Adel Barakat Ghaith.

Israeli raids in Palestinian towns, villages, and refugee camps are a daily occurrence in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem. The United Nations 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, 6,300 Palestinians were held in Israeli prisons as of March, including 300 minors and 61 women.

Arbitrary detention raids are the target of an ongoing open-ended hunger strike in Israeli prisons that entered its 15th day on Monday, as Palestinian prisoners have been forgoing food to also denounce their torture, medical negligence, and the deprivation of family visits by Israeli authorities.

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