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RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces detained at least 18 Palestinians, including a minor, across the occupied West Bank on predawn Tuesday.

Palestine Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said that Israeli forces detained four Palestinians in the southern West Bank district of Hebron. They were identified as Hassan Ziyad Awad, Khader Muhammad al-Haroub, Hassan Yasri al-Haroub, and Hamza Yousef Hamdan.

In the southern West Bank district of Bethlehem, another five Palestinians were detained. They were identified Louay Ibrahim Abu Mufreh, 21, Majdi Naij Abu Mufreh, 23, Mujahed Yousef Taqatqa, 16, Qusai Khaled Abu Salem, 24, Omar Hassan Salah, 34.

In the central West Bank district of Ramallah, two Palestinians were detained. PPs identified them as Sameh Fouad Lidadweh and Ahmad Nasser Abu Ali.

In the central West Bank district of Jericho, one Palestinian was detained and identified as Adi Faeq Tahan.

In the northern West Bank district of Salfit, PPS said that another two Palestinians were detained. They were identified as Hamza Yacoub Radad and Wael Mahmoud Shaqir.

In the northern West Bank district of Jenin, Israeli forces detained four Palestinians. PPS identified as Muataz Abu Maala, al-Hareth Abu Maala, Alaa Kamil, and Aysar Hussam al-Arqawi.

According to prisoners rights group Addameer, there are 5,450 Palestinian prisoners being held in Israeli prisons, including 48 female prisoners, and 205 minors, 32 of whom under 16 years old.
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by IMEMC News

Israeli soldiers abducted, Tuesday, two Palestinians, including the head of the Al-Aqsa Mosque’s Islamic Museum, in occupied East Jerusalem.

Media sources said the soldiers abducted Arafat Amro, the head of the Islamic Museum for Archelogy in Al-Aqsa Mosque, as he was leaving the holy site through Bab an-Nather and took him to an interrogation facility.

They added that Arafat was released in a 10.000 Shekels bail, after several hours of interrogation, and received an order barring him from Al-Aqsa Mosque and its compound where he works, for fifteen days.

Furthermore, the soldiers also abducted a young man from Jerusalem, who remained unidentified at the time of this report, after repeatedly assaulting him, causing various cuts and bruises.

Eyewitnesses said the soldiers struck the young man on the head of face, causing severe bleeding, and took him to the Police station in the Salahuddin Street.

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