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BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces detained at least 18 Palestinians, including several minors, during predawn detention raids across the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem on Monday, according to to local and official sources.

In the northern West Bank city of Nablus, Israeli forces detained three Palestinians, identified by locals as Hamzeh Khweireh, Khalid al-Tawil and Muhammad al-Kawni.

Southeast of Nablus, in the town of Aqraba, Israeli forces delivered a demolition notice to the home of Abd al-Rahman Bani Fadel, who was killed by Israeli forces last month after he stabbed and killed and Israeli settler in the Old City of occupied East Jerusalem.

In the central West Bank district Jerusalem, Israeli forces detained Palestinians identified as Ali Amjad Attiyeh, minor Mahmoud Ashraf Ubeid, minor Saleh al-Fakhouri, Younis Sufian Ubeid, Rida Muhammad Khader Ubeid and minor Ismail Ali Assi.

Israeli forces detained one Palestinian “youth” from the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem, according to locals. He was identified as Mahmoud Muhammad Elayyan Thawabteh.

An Israeli army spokesperson told Ma'an that eight Palestinians were detained overnight from the West Bank.

Meanwhile, in the East Jerusalem Shufat refugee camp, Israeli forces detained two teenage girls and six young men for "illegally entering the city.”

Thaer Fasfous, spokesperson of the Fatah movement in Shufat, told Ma'an that more than 30 Israeli soldiers raided the refugee camp, entering several stores, a health center, and a pharmacy before detaining two teenage girls and six “youths,” all holders of West Bank ID cards.

Clashes erupted in different areas across the refugee camp before Israeli forces retreated.

Israeli forces transfer the detainees to an interrogation center where they were later released from on bail, under the condition that they do not enter East Jerusalem.
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by IMEMC News

Israeli soldiers abducted, on Monday at dawn, six Palestinian children from their homes in occupied East Jerusalem, in addition to abducting a young man in Bethlehem, three in Nablus, and one in Qalqilia, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported.

The PPS said that dozens of soldiers invaded the al-‘Isawiya town, in the center of Jerusalem, searched and ransacked many homes and abducted six Palestinians, before moving them to interrogation centers in the city.

The children have been identified as Mahmoud Ashraf Obeid, 13, Younes Sofian Obeid, 15, Rida Mohammad Obeid, 17, Saleh Fakhouri, 13, Ismael Ali ‘Aassi, 13, and Ali Amjad ‘Atiya, 13.

It is worth mentioning that the town has been subject to daily invasions for more than a year, in addition to a strict military siege over the past two months.

Also in Jerusalem, the soldiers stationed at the Chain Gate, leading to the Al-Aqsa Mosque, prevented one of the holy site’s guards, identified as Mohammad Badran, from entering it.

Furthermore, the soldiers invaded Beit Fajjar town, south of Bethlehem, violently searched homes and abducted Mahmoud Mohammad Thawabta, 25.

In Nablus, in northern West Bank, several army jeeps invaded Ras al-Ein and Rafidia, searched many homes and abducted Khaled Ala Tawil, 20, Mohammad al-Kawni, 23, and Hamza Khweira, 24.

The soldiers also invaded the home of Abdul-Rahman Bani Fadel, in Aqraba village, and handed his family a demolition order to their property.

The army claims that Bani Fadel carried out a deliberate attack, last month, killing one Israeli security guard, before he was shot dead by Israeli soldiers.

In Qalqilia, also in northern West Bank, the soldiers abducted Mohammad Ali Sweilem, 22, while crossing a sudden military roadblock, east of the city.

The Palestinian was heading to his college, Palestine Technical University – Kadoorie, and his father is a political prisoner, serving a life term in Israeli prisons.

In Hebron, in southern West Bank, the soldiers invaded and searched many homes, and reportedly confiscated a weapon.

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