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BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- Israeli forces detained at least seven Palestinians between Sunday evening and before dawn Monday, according to the Israeli army and police.
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Meanwhile, one Palestinian was detained Sunday night in the occupied East Jerusalem town of Issawiya after he allegedly threw rocks at police, Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said in a statement at the time.

Israeli police spokeswoman Luba al-Samri also reported Sunday evening that police detained two Palestinians from the northern occupied West Bank town of Tulkarem while they were in Karmiel in northern Israel.

The two, which included one 27-year-old and one 17-year-old minor with a fake Israeli ID, were detained for being in Israel without Israeli permission.

Al-Samri said that two Israeli women in their 20s were also arrested for renting an apartment to the two Palestinians.

The Israeli magistrate’s court in Akka extended the minor’s remand and the two Israelis’ remands until Monday, while the adult Palestinian had his detention extended until Tuesday.

The Israeli police spokeswoman said the detentions came as “Israeli police continue its activities to limit illegal comers to the country, their hosts, employers, and those who transport them.”

Following a deadly attack in occupied east Jerusalem earlier this month, Israeli authorities revoked family visitation permits for 250,000 Palestinians with West Bank IDs, launching a harsh crackdown that saw hundreds rounded up in special police buses and deported back to their homes.

According to Palestinian prisoners’ rights group Addameer, some 6,200 Palestinians were being held in Israeli prisons as of May -- 300 of them minors. The group estimates that some 40 percent of adult Palestinian males have been detained by Israel at some point in their lives.

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