RNA - The Palestinian Prisoner's Society (PPS) said in a statement that seven Palestinians were detained in the Jerusalem area, but did not specify if they were detained by the Israeli army in the occupied West Bank or by Israeli police East Jerusalem, Ma'an reported.
The statement identified them as Salah al-Hamouri, Mousa Fatafta, Abd al-Karim Shuyukhi, Ali Qarain, Muhammad Sbeih, Luay Mousa, and Manal Shweiki.
Israeli forces also detained four Palestinians from the town of Biddu in the Jerusalem district of the West Bank, identified by PPS as Yousif Khalid Dar al-Sheikh, Ahmad Hussein al-Sheikh, Muhammad Falah al-Sheikh, and Abdullah Kamal al-Sheikh, Ma'an said.
One Palestinian was detained in the northern occupied West Bank city of Nablus, one in the al-Jalazun refugee camp in the central Ramallah district, one in Kafr Aqab in the Jerusalem district, one in Idhna in the southern Hebron district, and one in Hebron city.
Israeli raids in Palestinian towns, villages, and refugee camps are a daily occurrence in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, with a biweekly average of 85 search and detention raids carried thus far in 2017, according to UN documentation.
According to Palestinian prisoner’s rights group Addameer, there are some 6,128 Palestinians being held in Israeli prisons, including at least 320 minors and 62 women and girls.
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