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BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces detained at least 25 Palestinians, including at least three minors, between Sunday night and Monday morning in multiple areas across the occupied Palestinian territory.

Locals in the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya said Israeli forces detained 13 young Palestinian men and teenagers, identified as Ihab Muhammad Ubeid, Wassim Nayif Ubeid, Salih Ghassan Ubeid, Daoud Moussa Dirbas, Wahib Shawkat Ubeid, Muhammad Ibrahim Darwish, Muhammad Jamal Awwad, Mansour Mahmoud, Ihab Shawkat Ubeid, Ghanim Mustafa, Yasser Darwish, Wael Mahmoud, and Ayoub Ubeid.

Israeli police spokeswoman Luba al-Samri wrote in a statement that only 12 Palestinians were detained, including a 17-year-old minor.

Al-Samri said the detentions were made “upon legal court orders,” after the group was suspected of involvement in recent "riots" that took place in the area, which included throwing stones and Molotov cocktails at Israeli forces on the road to the illegal Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim.

She added that Israeli police forces who carried out the detentions “were pelted with stones and Molotov cocktails” as they withdrew from the Issawiya raid, though no injuries were reported among them.

Al-Samri said that more detentions were expected to be carried out later against other “suspects” in Issawiya.

Meanwhile, in the occupied West Bank beyond Israel’s illegal separation wall, the Israeli army carried out multiple predawn detention raids in various districts.

In the southern occupied West Bank district of Hebron, locals said that Israeli forces detained an “injured” young Palestinian man, Abdullah Muheisin, from al-Arrub refugee camp, as well as Fahd Abu Sbeih from Hebron city.

An Israeli army spokesperson confirmed the two detentions in Hebron.

Locals also told Ma’an that on Sunday night, a young Palestinian man was detained at the Israeli military checkpoint near the Ibrahimi mosque in Hebron’s Old City for allegedly attempting to stab Israeli forces there.

Locals identified the detainee as Izz al-Din Abu Rabiaa from al-Fawwar refugee camp in the Hebron district. An Israeli army spokesperson told Ma’an they were looking into the case.

In the southern Bethlehem district, Israeli forces stormed the town of Tuqu east of Bethlehem city and detained two 15-year-old boys, Mumin Ibrahim al-Umour and Salim Samih Misbah.

Locals said Israeli forces ransacked several homes before detaining the two children, and that clashes broke out between soldiers and locals after the detention raids.

In the central occupied West Bank, an Israeli army spokesperson said an alleged “Hamas operative" was detained in the town of Silwad north of Ramallah, and one Palestinian was detained in Aqabat Jaber refugee camp in the Jordan Valley region south of Jericho city.

In Azzun village east of Qalqiliya in the northern West Bank, locals said Israeli forces detained Uday Saqir Salim and Muhammad Imad Salim.

An Israeli army spokesperson only confirmed one detention in Azzun.

In the northern West Bank district of Nablus, the army spokesperson said that one Palestinian was detained in in the village of Burin, one in the village of Qusra, and one in the village of “Beita al-Fuaqa.” However, there is no such Palestinian village called Beita al-Fuaqa -- there is the town of Beita south of Nablus and a Beit Ur al-Fuaqa in the Ramallah area.

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 an average of 70 raids a week so far 2017.

According to prisoners’ rights group Addameer, 6,300 Palestinians were held in Israeli prisons as of April, including 300 minors, 61 women, and 500 under administrative detention -- Israel's contested policy of imprisonment without charge or trial.
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Media sources in Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, has reported that Israeli soldiers abducted, Monday, two young Palestinian men in the city.

The sources said that the soldiers abducted Fahd Majed Abu Sbeih, after invading his home and violently searching it, causing excessive damage.
The Palestinian was interrogated, along with his family, before the soldiers handcuffed and blindfolded him, and took him to an unknown destination.

In addition, the soldiers installed a roadblock at the western entrance of Hebron city, and abducted a Palestinian after searching his car, and reportedly “found a knife in the car.”

In addition, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers have kidnapped two children, and one man, from the West Bank governorates of Bethlehem and Jenin.

On Monday at dawn, the soldiers invaded the town of al-‘Eesawiyya, in the center of occupied East Jerusalem, searched many homes, and abducted thirteen Palestinians, before moving them to detention and interrogation centers in the city.

Also at dawn, the soldiers abducted two young men in Azzoun town, east of Qalqilia, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.

On Sunday, the soldiers abducted five Palestinians, including a wounded teenage boy and two former political prisoners, from Beit Ummar town, and one in Hebron city, in addition to one Palestinian near Jenin, in northern West Bank.
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The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers have kidnapped, Monday, two children in Bethlehem governorate, and one man from the northern West Bank governorate of Jenin.

Media sources in Bethlehem said the soldiers invaded and searched homes in Teqoua’ town, east of Bethlehem, and abducted Mo’men Ibrahim al-‘Amour, 15, and Salim Salem Sabah, 15.

The soldiers also abducted a man, identified as Ibrahim Abdul-Rahman Abu Bakr, from Ya’bad town, southwest of Jenin, at the al-Karama border crossing, between the occupied West Bank and Jordan, while he was returning home after the pilgrimage in Mecca.

On Monday at dawn, the soldiers invaded the town of al-‘Eesawiyya, in the center of occupied East Jerusalem, searched many homes, and abducted thirteen Palestinians, before moving them to detention and interrogation centers in the city.

Also at dawn, the soldiers abducted two young men in Azzoun town, east of Qalqilia, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.

On Sunday, the soldiers abducted five Palestinians, including a wounded teenage boy and two former political prisoners, from Beit Ummar town, and one in Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, in addition to one Palestinian near Jenin, in northern West Bank.
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by IMEMC News

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Monday at dawn, the town of al-‘Eesawiyya, in the center of occupied East Jerusalem, searched many homes, and abducted thirteen Palestinians, before moving them to detention and interrogation centers in the city.

The soldiers interrogated many Palestinians, while searching and ransacking their homes, and abducted thirteen Palestinians.

The abducted Palestinians have been identified as Ehab Mohammad Obeid, Waseem Nayef Obeid, Saleh Ghassan Obeid, Ayyoub Obeid, Ehab Shawkat Obeid, Waheeb Shawkat Obeid, Daoud Mousa Dirbas, Mohammad Ibrahim Darwish, Yasser Darwish, Mohammad Jamal Awad, Mansour Mahmoud, Wael Mahmoud and Ghanem Mustafa.

The army also installed roadblocks in the town, preventing the Palestinians from crossing, and withdrew later.

Also at dawn, the soldiers abducted two young men in Azzoun town, east of Qalqilia, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.

On Sunday, the soldiers abducted five Palestinians, including a wounded teenage boy and two former political prisoners, from Beit Ummar town, and one in Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, in addition to one Palestinian near Jenin, in northern West Bank.

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