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

PPS said in a statement that Israeli forces raided the northern West Bank districts of Nablus, Jenin, and Qalqiliya, and detained seven Palestinians, including a father and his two sons.

In the central West Bank, Israeli forces raided the Ramallah district and detained five Palestinians.

PPS reported that in East Jerusalem, Israeli forces detained two brothers from the Issawiya neighborhood, two from the Old City, and one from the Shufat refugee camp.

In the southern West Bank districts of Bethlehem and Hebron, Israeli forces detained four Palestinians. According to PPS, one of the detainees was 15-years-old.

The identities of the detainees remained unknown.

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

According to UN documentation, between January 16 and 29, Israeli forces carried out 160 search and arrest operations in the West Bank, while 2018 has seen a to a bi weekly average of 176 search and detention raids.
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by IMEMC News

Israeli soldiers abducted, Wednesday, twenty-one Palestinians, including a father and two of his children, from their homes, after invading and violently searching them, in several parts of the occupied West Bank.
The abducted Palestinians have been identified as:

1. Ahmad Bassem Hamed, 20, Ramallah.
2. Mahmoud Mohammad Jom’a, 21, Ramallah.
3. Jihad Nidal Oleyyan, Ramallah.
4. Ahmad Kathem Basbous, 20, Ramallah.
5. Waleed Khader Nasser, 29, Ramallah.
6. Ebada Najeeb, Jerusalem.
7. Mohammad Najeeb, Jerusalem.
8. Ahmad Atef Obeid, Jerusalem.
9. Tamer Atef Obeid, Jerusalem.
10. Omar Moheisin, Shu’fat – Jerusalem.
11. Ahmad Sa’ad, Nablus.
12. Husam Nidal Sal’ous, Nablus.
13. Yasser Husam Sal’ous, Nablus.
14. Nidal Husam Sal’ous, Nablus.
15. Abdullah Zoheir Walweel, 39, Qalqilia.
16. Mohammad Abdul-Rahman Assaf, Qalqilia.
17. Suleiman Ziad Nazzal, Qalqilia.
18. Omar Suleiman Sabbah, 15, Bethlehem.
19. Mo’tasem Sameeh al-‘Amour, 26, Bethlehem.
20. Hussein Mohammad al-‘Amour, Bethlehem.
21. Najm Eddin Abu Jarour, 20, Hebron.

In related news, medical sources have confirmed that a Palestinian teen, identified as Ahmad Mohammad Abed-Rabbo Abu Hilo, 19, died on Wednesday morning, from serious wounds he suffered last Friday, when Israeli soldiers opened fire at Palestinian protesters east of the al-Boreij refugee camp, in central Gaza.

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