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by IMEMC News

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers abducted, on Tuesday at dawn, eighteen Palestinians, including three children, and a young man with special needs, in several parts of the occupied West Bank.

The PPS said the soldiers stormed and ransacked dozens of homes across the West Bank, and interrogated many Palestinians.

One of the abducted Palestinians, Mahdi Farouq Abu Haniyya, 36, is a Palestinian with special needs, from Azzoun town, near Qalqilia, in northern West Bank.

The soldiers also installed roadblocks, stopped and searched dozens of cars, interrogated passengers and drivers while inspecting their ID cards.

In addition, the army fired many live rounds, gas bombs, concussion grenades and rubber-coated steel bullets at Palestinians protesting the invasions in Beit Bajan village, east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, Qotna village, northwest of occupied East Jerusalem, and several areas in Tulkarem.

The soldiers also invaded and ransacked the family home of Elias Saleh Shahin, 22, as killed by Israeli soldiers, Monday, near an illegal colony, north of Salfit, in the occupied West Bank.

The PPS identified the abducted Palestinians as:

Sanad Bahhour Abdo, Kufur Ni’ma – Ramallah.
Morad Eshteyya, Kufur Ni’ma – Ramallah.
Sanad Mo’in, Kufur Malek – Ramallah.
Bassem Abu Radi, Biddu – Jerusalem.
Ehab Issa al-‘Allami, 22, Beit Ummar – Hebron.
Ahmad Mohammad al-‘Allami, Beit Ummar – Hebron.
Mohammad No’man Shakarna, 15, Nahhalin – Bethlehem.
Mousa Ahmad Najajra, 14, Nahhalin – Bethlehem.
Ali Mousa Zawahra, 31, Doha – Bethlehem.
Ameed Azmi Sarhan, 22, Tulkarem.
Mohammad Rajeh Shbeita, 11, Azzoun – Qalqilia.
Kathem Radwan, Azzoun – Qalqilia.
Mo’tasem Mohammad Radwan, 33, Azzoun – Qalqilia.
Sa’ed Mohammad Sweidan, 40, Azzoun – Qalqilia.
Mahdi Farouq Abu Haniyya, 36, Azzoun Qalqilia.
Ala’ Bassam Gharaba, Kafr Qalil – Qalqilia.
Waqqass Bassam Gharaba, 14, Kafr Qalil – Qalqilia.
Arkan Yousef Abu Safiyya, Kafr Thulth – Qalqilia.
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RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces detained at least 15 Palestinians, including three minors, during predawn raids on Tuesday across the occupied West Bank.

Palestinian Prisoner's Society (PPS) confirmed that Israeli forces detained one Palestinian in the southern West Bank district of Hebron, he was identified as Ihab Issa Mahmoud al-Alami, 22.

In the southern West Bank district of Bethlehem, three Palestinians were detained, they were identified as Ali Moussa Zuwahra, 31, Muhammad Numan Shakarneh, 15, and Moussa Ahmad Najajra, 14.

In the central West Bank district of Jerusalem, one Palestinian was detained and identified as Bassel Abu Radi.

In the central West Bank district of Ramallah, three Palestinians were detained. PPS identified them as Sanad Muin Hamayil, Sanad Buhour Abdo and Murad Ishtayeh.

In the northern West Bank district of Qalqiliya, Israeli forces detained six Palestinians; they were identified as Alaa Bassam Gharrabeh, along with his brother Qas, 14, Arkan Youssef Abu Safiyeh, Saed Muhammad Sweidan, 40, Mutassem Muhammad Radwan, 33, Mahdi Farouq Abu Haniya, 36.

In the northern West Bank district of Tulkarem, Israeli forces detained one Palestinian; PPS identified him as Imad Azmi Sarhan, 22.

Israeli search and detention raids are a nightly occurrence in Palestinian cities, towns, and refugee camps across the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.

According to prisoners rights group Addameer, there are 5,640 Palestinian prisoners currently being held in Israeli prisons, of whom 270 are child prisoners, and 50 are under the age of 16.

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