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BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- Israeli forces detained eight Palestinians, including minors, during predawn raids on Sunday in several areas across the occupied West Bank, according to official Palestinian Authority-owned Wafa news agency.

In the northern West Bank, Wafa reported that Israeli soldiers detained a Palestinian “youth” from the Tulkarem district.

Three high school students were detained from the Ramallah-area village of Nabi Saleh in the central West Bank, according to Wafa.

Meanwhile, in the southern West Bank district of Hebron, Wafa reported that Israeli forces detained four Palestinians, including a 14-year-old, after raiding and searching several homes in the town of Beit Ummar.

An Israeli army spokesperson told Ma’an that six Palestinians were detained overnight.

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.
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by IMEMC News

Israeli soldiers abducted, earlier Sunday, eight young Palestinian men in the West Bank governorates of Hebron, Ramallah and Tulkarem.

Media sources in Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, said the soldiers stormed and ransacked homes in Beit Ummar town, north of the city, and abducted two teenagers and a child, identified as Malek Bassam at-Teet, 18, Bashar Mahmoud at-Teet, 18, and Mohammad Bassam Ekhlayyel, 14.

They added that the soldiers also invaded homes in Hebron city, and abducted a young man, identified as Majdi Motawe’.

Furthermore, the soldiers stationed at the military roadblock on the main entrance of Nabi Saleh village, northwest of Ramallah in central West Bank, abducted three children, identified as Ahmad Shaker Tamimi, Mohannad Essam Tamimi and Mohannad Hamza Tamimi.

The three are students of the eleventh and twelfth grades, in a local school in Deir Nitham village, northwest of Ramallah.

It is worth mentioning that the students are forced to cross the roadblock every school day, at least twice.

In addition, the soldiers abducted Aseed Mohammad K’eiba, 25, from Ezbet al-Jarad village, east of Qalqilia, in northern West Bank, after invading his home and violently searching it.

The soldiers also invaded and ransacked many homes near the Courts Compound, in the Western Neighborhood, in Tulkarem city.

On Saturday evening, several Israeli colonists hurled stones and empty bottles at Palestinian cars, east of Hebron city, causing damage.

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