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by IMEMC News

Israeli soldiers abducted, on Wednesday at dawn, fifteen Palestinians, including one woman, from their homes, in several parts of the occupied West Bank.

The Israeli army said a grenade was hurled at the soldiers from a speeding car, while the army was invading and conducting searches of homes and property, in the al-Jalazoun refugee camp, in Ramallah, without leading to casualties.

Furthermore, the army said its soldiers located a pistol, during searches in Ethna town, west of Hebron.

The soldiers also abducted a Palestinian woman, an author identified as Israa’ Khader Lafi, from her home in Surif town, northwest of Hebron.

The soldiers carried out extensive and violent searches of many homes in the town, in addition to Beit Ola and Yatta, west of south of Hebron, and installed many roadblocks on roads leading to Hebron and several surrounding towns.

Ten of the abducted Palestinians have been identified as:

Mohmmad Nabil al-Adel, Qalqilia.
Ismael Jibril, Qalqilia.
Rami Badran, Tulkarem.
Mustafa Bodeir, Tulkarem,
Mo’tasem Jawad Abu Alia, al- Mughayyir, Ramallah.
Mohammad Abed Abu Ali, al- Mughayyir, Ramallah.
Israa’ Khader Lafi, Surif, Hebron.
Mohammad Sameeh Ghneimat, Surif, Hebron.
Mohammad Haitham Khatib, Qalandia refugee camp, Jerusalem.
Mohammad Nasser Mohsin, Abu Dis, Jerusalem.
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RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces detained at least 10 Palestinians, including a female writer, on predawn Wednesday during raids across the occupied West Bank.

According to Palestinian Prisoner's Society (PPS), Israeli forces raided Surif village in the southern West Bank district of Hebron and detained a writer and engineer, Israa Khader Ahmad Ghneimat, 34.

The reason for Ghneimat's detention remained unknown.

In the central West Bank district of Jerusalem, two Palestinians were detained; they were identified as Muhammad Haitham al-Khatib and Muhammad Nasser Muhssein.

In the central West Bank district of Ramallah, Israeli forces detained three Palestinians; PPS identified them as Mutassem Jawad Abu Alia, Muhammad Abed Abu Alia and Rami Sajdiya.

PPS confirmed that Israeli forces detained two Palestinians in the northern West Bank district of Qalqiliya and identified them as Muhammad Nabil Abu al-Abed, 21, and Ismail Jibril, 20.

In the northern West Bank district of Tulkarem, Israeli forces detained two Palestinians; PPS identified them as Mustafa Amer Badir, 33, and Rami Zaki Badran, 36.

According to prisoners rights group Addameer, there are 5,781 Palestinian prisoners being held in Israeli prisons, of whom 65 are female prisoners.

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