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BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Two Palestinian youths were injured with live ammunition as Israeli forces conducted predawn detention raids in several districts across the occupied West Bank before dawn on Wednesday, detaining 12 Palestinians. 

Locals in the city of Jericho told Ma’an that two youths, whose identities remained unknown, were shot by Israeli forces with live ammunition during a raid on the Aqbat Jaber refugee camp. Two other Palestinians were detained during the raid. 

According to a statement from the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS), a 16-year-old Palestinian and his 26-year-old brother were detained from Jericho. 

Meanwhile, PPS said in a statement that Israeli forces detained 10 other Palestinians during West Bank raids.

In the northern West Bank, PPS reported that Israeli forces detained two Palestinians from the Jenin district, two from the Nablus district, and one from Qalqilya.

In the central West Bank district of Ramallah, PPS said that Israeli forces detained three Palestinians from the al-Amari refugee camp. 

One of the detainees was identified as Jihad Abu Hmeid, 30, whose four brothers are serving life sentence in Israeli prison.

Abu Hmeid and four of his family members, including children, were reportedly “roughed up” and handcuffed during the arrest of Abu Hmeid, official Palestinian Authority (PA)-owned Wafa news agency reported. 

PPS said Israeli forces detained two people, including a 15-year-old, in the southern West Bank district of Hebron.

The Israeli army said in a statement that 11 Palestinians were detained during raids.

Israeli raids into Palestinian towns and villages are near daily occurrence in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

According to UN documentation, between December 19th and January 1st, Israeli forces carried out 170 search and arrest operations in the West Bank.
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by IMEMC News January 10, 2018 1:27 PM

Updated: Israeli soldiers abducted, on Wednesday at dawn, at least thirteen Palestinians from their homes, after invading and searching them, in several parts of the occupied West Bank, and two others at a roadblock, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported.

On Wednesday at noon, the soldiers installed a military roadblock near Arraba town junction, south of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and abducted two young men.

The PPS said dozens of soldiers invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, the al-Am’ari refugee camp, in the central West Bank city of Ramallah, searched many homes, and abducted three Palestinians, identified as Mohammad al-Mahseeri, Thieb at-Turmustani, and Jihad Abu Hmeid, 30.

It is worth mentioning that Abu Hmeid is a brother of four detainees, held by Israel, identified as Nasser, Nasr, Sharif and Mohammad; all are serving life terms.

The soldiers detonated the front door jihad’s home, before breaking into it and ransacking it, and assaulted members of his family, including children, in addition to cuffing them during the invasion of their property.

In Ramallah city, the soldiers abducted a young woman from Bethlehem, identified as Hiba Mohammad Abu Jaja.

In Jenin, in northern West Bank, the soldiers abducted Mahmoud Emad Kamil and Yazan Mughayer, from their homes.

In Nablus, also in northern West Bank, the soldiers abducted Tamer Taher and Khaldoun Zahi Khatatba, 25, from their homes, after violently searching them.

In Jericho, in northeastern West Bank, the soldiers also invaded homes, and abducted Ahmad Barham Barahma, 26, and his brother Mohammad, 16.

Furthermore, the soldiers invaded Jayyous town, east of Qalqilia, in northern West Bank, searched homes, and abducted Ibrahim Abdul-Jaber Salim, 26.

In Hebron, in southern West Bank, the soldiers invaded and searched many homes, interrogated several Palestinians while inspecting their ID cards, abducted a child, identified as Mahmoud Emad Abu ‘Assab, 15, in addition to Shehda Suleiman Jabarin, 40.

In related news, several fanatic Israeli colonists invaded lands in Madama village, south of Nablus, and uprooted them in preparation for new roads leading to Yitzhar illegal colony, which was illegally built on private Palestinian lands.
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by IMEMC News

Early Wednesday, several Israeli colonizers living in illegal colonies and outposts in the northern West Bank governorate of Nablus, attacked many Palestinian cars, causing damage and wounding two Palestinians. In Hebron, Israeli soldiers abducted two Palestinians and confiscated gold and cash.

Medical sources said one Palestinian, identified as Ayman Farouq Obeidat, was injured when the colonizers hurled stones at his car, in Huwwara town.

They added that another Palestinian, identified as Aziz Bassam Dweikat, was also injured after the Israeli assailants hurled stones at his car, at a junction west of Nablus.

Israeli soldiers, who had been heavily deployed at and near these junctions following the death of an Israeli colonizer in the area on Tuesday night, did not attempt to stop the Israeli attackers. This forced hundreds of Palestinian cars to take longer, and largely unpaved roads, leading to Awarta then Beit town, to avoid the colonizers.

The closure caused huge traffic jams in the area, and many workers and students were unable to leave their communities.

The soldiers also isolated many Palestinian villages and towns in Nablus governorate, and initiated massive invasions and search campaigns, to locate the shooter or shooters, who killed an Israeli colonizer, on Tuesday evening, near Havat Gilad illegal colony, which was built on lands owned by Palestinians from Jeet village.

In Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank, the soldiers invaded and searched homes in the ath-Thaheriyya town, south of the city, and abducted Shehda Suleiman Jabarin, 40.

The soldiers also invaded Hebron city, searched homes and illegally confiscated gold and cash from the home of Jassem Khairi Abu Rajab, after breaking into his property and violently searching it.

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