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by IMEMC News

Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded, on Monday at dawn, several areas in the southern West Bank governorate of Hebron, searched many homes and abducted nine Palestinians, including three children.

The soldiers invaded many homes in Hebron city, and conducted violent searches, before abducting three children, identified as Samer Hassanein Nahnoush, Othman Ibrahim Morad and Abdul-Rahim Abdul-Aziz Rajabi, in addition to two adults, identified as Abdul-Rahman Awad Sharabati and Mohammad Ishaq Makhamra.

The soldiers also invaded Yatta town, south of Hebron, and abducted Nizar Mousa Mohammad, 21, and Mahmoud Jibril Makhamra, 51.

Another Palestinian, identified as Khalil Zahran Abu Qbeita, also from Yatta, was abducted at a military roadblock in the town.

Mohammad Awad, media spokesperson of the Popular Committee in Beit Ummar town, north of Hebron, said many soldiers invaded and ransacked homes, and abducted his son, Amir, 19.

He added that the soldiers also searched old abandoned homes in the town, and attempted to invade Nabi Matta mosque, but the worshippers stopped them.

Furthermore, the soldiers invaded al-Qafeer and Roq’a area, in Yatta town, south of Hebron and searched many homes, owned by members of Makhamra family.

On Sunday evening, the Ofer Israeli military court, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, sentenced Nasr Badawi, 35, and his brother Akram, 25, to a life term each, and 60.000 Shekels fine, after convicting them of carrying out shooting attacks, in the period between November 2015 and January 2016, wounding four Israeli soldiers in Hebron governorate.
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BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- Israeli forces detained 14 Palestinians, including a former hunger-striking prisoner, during overnight raids between Sunday and Monday in the occupied West Bank.

The Palestinian Prisoner's Society (PPS) said in a statement that Israeli forces detained nine Palestinians from the Hebron district in the southern West Bank.

PPS identified them as Nizar Moussa Muhammad, Mahmoud Jibril Makhamreh, Samer Hussein al-Nahnush, Othman Ibrahim Murad, Abed al-Rahim Abed al-Aziz al-Rajabi, Abed al-Rahman Awad al-Sharabati, Muhammad Ishaq Maharmeh, Zuran Abu Qubeita and Amir Muhammad Abed al-Jawad Ikhalyyil.

Also in the southern West Bank, Israeli forces detained three Palestinians from Bethlehem district, Yousif Sabbah, Muhammad Nael Hamideh and Hussam Omar Abu Khalifeh.

In the central West Bank district of Salfit, Israeli forces detained a Palestinian “youth,” identified as Nabil Abdullah Ahmad, from the town of Kafr al-Dik.

Former prisoner and Islamic Jihad movement leader Tareq Qaadan, who underwent hunger strike while in prison, was detained from the Arraba town near Jenin in the northern West Bank.

An Israeli army spokesperson confirmed 14 detentions to Ma’an.

According to United Nations documentation, Israeli forces conducted 166 search and arrest operations across the West Bank between October 24 and November 26.

Meanwhile, prisoners’ rights group Addameer recorded 6,198 Palestinians were detained by Israel as of October. The group has estimated that some 40 percent of Palestinian men will be detained by Israel at some point in their lives.