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BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- At least 17 Palestinians, including one teenager, were detained by Israeli forces during overnight raids between Monday and Tuesday across the occupied West Bank, according to Israeli and Palestinian sources.

An Israeli army spokesperson told Ma’an that four Palestinians were detained in the northern West Bank, identifying one detention from the Jenin district, one from the Nablus-area village of Salem, and two from Qalqiliya City.

The Palestinian Prisoner's Society (PPS) said in a statement that three Palestinians were detained in the Nablus district, identifying them as Qais Sawalma, Muhammad Naim Issa, and Muhammad Khalid Tabanji.

Locals from Qalqiliya told Ma’an that Israeli forces detained three Palestinians from the city, identified as Kamal Ibrahim al-Baz, his son Baraa, 17, and Ahmad Quraan, 25.

PPS added that in the Tulkarem district, Israeli forces detained Khalil Ibrahim Tayyim, 27.

According to PPS, five Palestinians were detained in the central West Bank district of Ramallah, who were identified as Ahmad Hisham Elayyan, Mahmoud Nasser Zeid, Muhammad Nasser Zeid, Usama Mustafa al-Hattab, and Muhammad Othman Zahran, 18.

The Israeli army spokesperson confirmed five detentions from the Ramallah area, identifying three detention from the al-Jalazun refugee camp, one from the village of Deir Abu Mashaal, and one from an unidentifiable village.

In the Hebron district of the southern occupied West Bank, Israeli forces detained Abd al-Halim Qafisha, 16, Issa Hassan Adi, 28, Muath Ikhlayyil, Fawzi Mahmoud Fawzi Awwad, and Muhammad al-Qassam Abu Hammad, according to PPS.

Local sources told Ma’an that Adi, Ikhlayyil, and Awwad were detained from the Hebron-area village of Beit Ummar, highlighting that a Molotov cocktail was thrown at an Israeli military vehicle when Israeli forces left the area.

Meanwhile, locals told Ma’an that Israeli forces detained 16-year-old Qafisha from his home in Hebron City. PPS added that Qafisha was “injured” when he was arrested, though the nature of his injury remained unknown.

An Israeli army spokesperson told Ma’an that one Palestinian was detained from Beit Ummar, and one was detained from Hebron City.

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 85 search and detention raids carried thus far in 2017, according to UN documentation.
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by IMEMC News

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Tuesday at dawn, several homes in occupied East Jerusalem, and Hebron in the southern part of the West Bank, violently searched them and abducted six Palestinians in Hebron and one in Jerusalem. The army also broke into shops and warehouses in Tulkarem, in northern West Bank.

The Hebron office of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) said the soldiers abducted Abdul-Halim Ibrahim Qfeisha, 16, and Saleh Raed Abu Markhiyya, from their homes in Hebron city, and another young man, identified as Ala’ Mohammad Ziyadat, from Bani Neim town, east of Hebron.

The soldiers also invaded Beit Ummar town, north of Hebron, searched and ransacked many homes and abducted Issa Hasan ‘Aadi, 28, Moath Wael Ekhlayyel, 21, and Mohammad Fawzi Awad, before taking them to Etzion military base and security center.

In related news, the soldiers abducted Amjad Hani Shweiki, 19, after invading his home in Silwan town, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in Jerusalem.

The young man was cuffed and blindfolded, before the soldiers took him to an interrogation center in the city.

In Tulkarem, the soldiers invaded many shops and blacksmith workshops, in various neighborhoods in the city.

The invasions simultaneously took place in al-Haddadin road, north of Tulkarem, and Nablus Street. The soldiers broke the locks of the shops’ doors, and violently searched them, causing excessive damage.

The invaded structures are a sanitary products shop, owned by Hamal Salam Zeidan, two lathe workshops owned by Tamer Allariyya and Jamal Fseesy, a store owned by Omar Safaqa and a warehouse for sanitary products, owned by Nidal ad-Daleq.

The owners said the invasion has no legal foundation, and that the soldiers did not even present any justifications, and added that the sole purpose of these violations is to cause destruction.

Furthermore, the soldiers and personnel of the City Council in Jerusalem invaded the town of a-‘Eesawiyya, in East Jerusalem, and demolish a two-story building, used for residence and commercial purposes.

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