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BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces detained 22 Palestinians, including three lawyers, during predawn raids in the occupied West Bank on Monday.

An Israeli army spokesperson told Ma’an that 22 Palestinians were detained, without providing the specific locations from where they were arrested.

The army said in a statement that they found a weapon, two bullet-magazines, and a rifle during search raids in the Thannaba village in eastern Tulkarem in the northern West Bank.

In the Nablus district, also in the northern West Bank, locals identified two Palestinains who were arrested as Rashid Zeuheir Lubbadeh and Husni al-Amudi, 28, a former prisoner.

In the central West Bank, locals told Ma’an that Israeli forces detain Ali Hijazi Daana from the Jerusalem district, while, Ahmad Zaid, a Hamas leader in Ramallah who was released by Israeli forces 5 months ago and Ahmad Awadallah, and lawyer Khalid Zabarqa -- who is the lawyer of Sheikh Raed Salah, the leader of the northern branch of the outlawed Islamic Movement in Israel -- were all detained from the Ramallah district.

Two other lawyers, identified as Firas Sabbah and Iyad Misk were also detained from the Ramallah and Jerusalem district, respectively, in the central West Bank.

In the southern West Bank Bethlehem district, locals told Ma’an that two Palestinians were detained from the town of al-Khader. They were identified as Abd al-Rahman Issa Amr, 19, and Bilal Omar Abu al-Lahm.

Locals in Bethlehem city said that Issa Ayyad al-Hreimi was detained by Israeli forces.

According to United Nations documentation, Israeli forces conducted 147 search and arrest operations across the West Bank between November 7 and November 20.

Meanwhile, 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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Israeli soldiers abducted, on Monday at dawn, six Palestinians, including three children, in the West Bank governorates of Bethlehem, Hebron and Jenin, after the army invaded many homes and violently searched them.

The Bethlehem office of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) said the soldiers abducted Issa Mohammad al-Hreimi, 17, from the city, in addition to Abdul-Rahman Amro Issa, 14, and Bilal Sbeih, 14, from the al-Khader town, south of Bethlehem.

In addition, the soldiers invaded many homes in Yatta town, south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and abducted Haitham Jamil Awad, 29.

The soldiers caused serious damage to Haitham’s home, after violently breaking into it and ransacking its property.

The soldiers also invaded Beit Ummar town, north of Hebron, and abducted Shadi Ibrahim Bahar, after invading his family’s home and searching it.

In Jenin, in northern West Bank, the soldiers abducted a former political prisoner, identified as Mohammad Abu an-Naseef, 40, from his home in Abu Their neighborhood.

The soldiers also invaded the home of Essam Abu Hatab, in Jenin, and violently searched it.

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