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An Israeli soldier prevents a Palestinian child from entering a street in the Old City of Hebron on July 14, 2017. (Christian Peacemaker Teams, File). Published by Maan News
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BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- Israeli forces detained 13 Palestinians, seven of them minors, during raids in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, between Sunday and Monday, Palestinian and Israeli sources said.

In the northern and central West Bank, an Israeli army spokesperson told Ma’an that two Palestinians were detained at the Zaatara checkpoint in the Nablus district, while two others were detained in the Salfit-area village of Kifl Haris, and another was detained in Deir Qaddis in the Ramallah district.

The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) identified two Palestinians detained overnight as Nour Abd al-Aziz Mahmoud al-Asaad and Muhammad Abdullah Shaqur, without specifying where they were detained.

In the Bethlehem district, the army said four Palestinians were detained in the village of Tuqu.

PPS said the four were minors, identifying them as Muayyad Abdullah al-Umour, Muhiyi Ahmad al-Umour, Muamin Ibrahim al-Umour, and Marwan Kamal al-Umour.

PPS added that Israeli forces detained three Palestinians in Aida refugee camp, located adjacent to Bethlehem city, identifying them as Abd al-Hamid Hammam Abu Srour, Amr Ahmad Abu Srour, and Muhammad Rami Uweis.

Israeli police spokeswoman Luba al-Samri said in a statement that three minors were detained by Israeli border police over suspicions that they had thrown stones and Molotov cocktails at Israeli forces.

A video of the detention showed two small boys throwing stones with no visibly apparent target, before a border police vehicle arrives and officers run after the children, dragging them back to the vehicle.

Al-Samri added that the children’s fathers were summoned, and the young boys were then transferred to Palestinian security forces, who released them after their families paid a bail of 500 Jordanian dinar ($705) each -- a significant sum, given that the minimum wage in Palestine is set at 1,450 shekels ($400).

In the Hebron district, the army said one Palestinian, identified by PPS as Baraa Moussa al-Kawazba, was detained in the village of Sair.

In East Jerusalem, the Wadi Hilweh Information Center told Ma’an that Israeli forces stormed the Ein al-Luza and Bir Ayoub areas in the neighborhood of Silwan after a vehicle used by Israeli security guards was hit and burned by a Molotov cocktail.

Israeli forces fired stun grenades and rubber-coated steel bullets "haphazardly" in the area and closed the main roads, the center said, without mentioning any detentions.

Israeli raids in Palestinian towns, villages, and refugee camps are a daily occurrence in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, with a biweekly average of 95 search and detention raids carried out over the course of 2016, according to UN documentation.

Prisoners' rights group Addameer estimated that 6,128 Palestinians were held in Israeli prisons as of July, including 320 minors.
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Army Abducts Seven Palestinian Children In Bethlehem


by IMEMC News

Israeli soldiers abducted, on Sunday evening and Monday at dawn, seven Palestinian children, including two children, 10 years of age, and summoned one Palestinian for interrogation, in the West Bank governorate of Bethlehem.

The Bethlehem office of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported that the soldiers invaded, on Monday at dawn, Teqoua’ town, east of Bethlehem, searched many homes and abducted Mahmoun Ibrahim Al-‘Amour, 15, Mohye Khalil Al-‘Amour, 17, Marwan Kamel al-‘Amour, 17, and Moayyad Abdullah Al-‘Amour, 17.

It added that the soldiers also invaded Doha town, west of Bethlehem, searched homes, and summoned Nader Issa Khatib, 28, for interrogation in Etzion military base and security center.

On Sunday evening, dozens of soldiers invaded Aida refugee camp, north of Bethlehem, violently searched several homes, and abducted three children, identified as Mohammad Rami ‘Oweiss, 10, Abdul-Hamid Abu Srour, 10, and Amro Ahmad Abu Srour.

The three children standing near the eastern entrance of the refugee camp when the army invaded it.
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Israeli Soldiers Injure Two Palestinians In Nablus, Abduct Two In Salfit

by IMEMC News
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers shot and injured, on Monday at dawn, two young Palestinian men Nablus, and abducted two others in Salfit.

Media sources in Nablus said clashes took place after dozens of soldiers, accompanied Israeli settlers’ buses and cars, invaded the eastern area of the city, heading to towards Joseph’s Tomb area.

The added that the soldiers fired many gas bombs and rubber-coated steel bullets, wounding two Palestinians, identified as Amin Mohammad Beitar, 26, and Nidal Jabr Abu Keshek, 24, with rubber-coated steel bullets in the lower back, and chest.

Medics provided the wounded Palestinians with the needed medical attention, and moved them to Rafidia hospital.

In Salfit governorate, in northeastern West Bank, the soldiers invaded Kifl Hares, north of Salfit city, searched several homes and abducted two Palestinians, identified as Nour Abdul-Aziz al-As’ad and Mohammad Abdullah Mousa.

Furthermore, the soldiers abducted, on Sunday evening and Monday at dawn, seven Palestinian children, including two children, 10 years of age, and summoned one Palestinian for interrogation, in the West Bank governorate of Bethlehem.

On Sunday evening, the soldiers assaulted several young Palestinian men and women near the Al-Aqsa Mosque, especially at the Council Gate and the Chain Gate of the holy site, and abducted twelve of them, but released one later.

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