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RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces detained at least 11 Palestinians during overnight raids across the occupied West Bank.

The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) reported that in the southern West Bank district of Bethlehem, Israeli forces detained two Palestinians from Husan, they were identified as Muhammad Ali Sabatin and Amr Imran Zaoul.

One Palestinian identified as Ammar Nasser Hbeis was detained from the Deir Abu Mashaal town in the central West Bank district of Ramallah and al-Bireh.

PPS added that four Palestinians were detained from the northern West Bank district of Qalqiliya; they were identified as Diyaa Rajab al-Qaddumi, 29, Yazan Muntasser Barham, Malek Zaki Birri and Muhamad Ammar Birri.

Four other Palestinians, including head of village council, were detained by Israeli forces from the Jenin district in the northern West Bank; PPS identified them as Usama Turkman, Hussam Abu Aita, Head of Faqqua village council Barakat Omar Naji al-Omari, 45, and Hisham Mahmoud Abu Farha.

According to prisoners rights group Addameer, there are 5,554 Palestinian prisoners being held in Israeli prisons.

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