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BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces detained 21 Palestinians during pre dawn raids on Wednesday in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS).

PPS said in a statement that Israeli forces detained eight Palestinians from the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem, three from the central West Bank Ramallah district, two from the southern West Bank al-Arroub refugee camp near Hebron, one from Tulkarm, one from Nablus and another from Jenin, all in the northern West Bank.

Meanwhile, in East Jerusalem, PPS said that Israeli police detained five minors, whose ages ranged between 14 and 17 years.

The Israeli said in a statement that it detained 13 Palestinians from the West Bank.

Israeli media identified some of the detainees as former prisoner Abd al-Rahman Nassuh Ishtayeh from Nablus, Hammudi al-Salim from Tulkarem, Adam Iyad al-Umour, 17, from Tuqu in eastern Bethlehem, former prisoner Bilal Salameh from Bethlehem, Qussay al-Titi and minor Ismail Maher al-Sharif from the al-Arroub refugee camp.

Israeli raids into Palestinian towns and villages are near daily occurrence in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
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Israeli Soldiers Abduct Twenty-Two Palestinians In The West Bank

by IMEMC News

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday, many homes in various parts of the occupied West Bank, and violently searched them, before abducting at twenty-two Palestinians, including children, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported. On Wednesday morning, the soldiers abducted a college student in Bethlehem.

The PPS said that the soldiers invaded many homes in several parts of the West Bank governorate of Bethlehem, and abducted eight Palestinians, identified as Bilal Khader Salama, 24, As’ad Darwish, Mo’men Malash, Mohammad al-Asakra, Awad al-Asakra, Adam Eyad al-‘Amour, 17, Mahmoud Salem al-Badan, and former political prisoner Yasmin Abu Srour.

In occupied Jerusalem, the soldiers also invaded and ransacked homes, and abducted five children, identified as Rawhi Mo’taz al-Mobabber, 14, Khader Salam Abu Ghannam, 15, Mohammad Ali Abu Ghannam, 15, Mo’men Taha al-Ghaleeth, 17, and Khaled Shalabi, 15.

In Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, the soldiers searched many homes, and abducted Ismael Maher Sharif, 16, and Qussai Ayman Teety, 16, from the al-‘Arroub refugee camp, north of the city.

The soldiers also invaded the al-Fawwar refugee camp southwest of Hebron, and Rabud city, south of the city, and withdrew later without abducting any Palestinian.

Also, the soldiers abducted a university student from Ejja town, south of Jenin, after stopping him at the “Container” Israeli military roadblock, northeast of Bethlehem, while he was heading to Polytechnic University, in Hebron city.

In addition, the soldiers invaded ‘Allar town, north of the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem, and abducted a young man, identified as Mohammad Salim Majadba, after invading his home and searching it.

Another Palestinian, identified as Abdul-Rahman Nasouh Eshteyya, was abducted after the soldiers invaded and searched, his home in Salem village, east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and illegally confiscated his car.

Furthermore, the soldiers abducted Daoud Omariyya, from his home in Jenin, in northern West Bank.

In Ramallah, in central West Bank, the soldiers abducted Hamada Abu ‘Arab, Mohammad al-‘At’oot and Amir Mousa Reehan, after invading their homes and searching them.

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