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RAMALLAH (Ma’an) – Israeli forces detained four Palestinians across the occupied West Bank between Wednesday night and Thursday, including a former Palestinian hunger striker who was recently released from Israeli prison, according to Palestinian and Israeli sources.

The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said in a statement that Israeli forces had detained former Palestinian prisoner of Israel and hunger striker Anas Shadid from the village of Dura in the southern occupied West Bank district of Hebron.

Shadid was released from prison a little more than a month ago after going on a 90-day hunger strike in protest of being held under administrative detention -- Israel’s policy of imprisonment without charge or trial.

An Israeli army spokesperson confirmed the detention in Dura.

Meanwhile, in the northern West Bank, PPS said that Israeli forces detained Amjad Jamal Milhem, 22, at an unspecified Israeli military checkpoint.

Israeli forces also detained Alaa Shahrour and Amir Shahrour from the Tulkrarem district while the two were visiting Jerusalem city.

Israeli raids in Palestinian towns, villages, and refugee camps are a daily occurrence in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem.

Israeli authorities carried out an average of 95 army raids a week in Palestinian communities since the beginning of the year, according to UN documentation.

According to prisoners rights group Addameer, 6,200 Palestinians were being held in Israeli prison as of May.
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by IMEMC News

sraeli soldiers abducted, Thursday, four young Palestinian men in various parts of the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported.

The Jenin office of the PPS, in the northern part of the West Bank, said the soldiers abducted Amjad Jamal Milhem, 22, after stopping him at a military roadblock, near Jenin.

The soldiers also abducted Ala’ Shahrour and Amir Shahrour, both from the northern West Bank governorate of Tulkarem, after stopping them in occupied East Jerusalem.

On Thursday at dawn, the soldiers abducted a former political prisoner, identified as Anas Ibrahim Shadeed, 30. from his home in Doura town, south of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank.

The Hebron office of the PPS said Shadeed is a former political prisoner, who was recently released, and was among the detainees who, on May 27th this year, reached an agreement with the Israeli Prison Authority, ending a hunger strike which lasted for 40 days.

On Wednesday at night, the soldiers invaded Abu Dis town, east of occupied East Jerusalem, and clashed with local youths, wounding three with rubber-coated steel bullets, and causing twenty-six others to suffer the severe effects of teargas inhalation. The soldiers also abducted one Palestinian near Jenin.

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