Israeli Army Detains 14 Palestinians in West Bank Raids

Rasa - Israeli army forces detained at least 14 Palestinians in raids on Sunday in multiple areas across the occupied West Bank.

News ID: 428269

Date: 19 March 2017 - 21:57

RNA - Locals sources said that Israeli troops raided the home of Muhammad Khader Hawamda in the village of al-Samu South of Hebron in Southern occupied West Bank, Ma'an reported.

Israeli forces detained Hawamda and his four sons. The Israeli army also claimed they found a handgun and ammunition in al-Samu.

Locals in Hebron said earlier that Israeli forces also detained Mamoon al-Natsha in the Tel Rumeida neighborhood, with the Israeli army claiming he was carrying a screw driver and planning a stabbing attack.

In the Southern West Bank district of Bethlehem, locals said Israeli forces detained 22-year-old Hasan Ahmad Sabatin and Yazan Sabatin from the town of Husan, 22-year-old Muayyad Salah Taqatqa in Beit Fajjar, as well as 18-year-old Jamil Ibrahim Taqatqa and another unidentified woman from Umm Salamouna.

An Israeli army spokesperson confirmed one detention in Beit Fajjar and one in Umm Salamuna, and informed Ma'an of another detention carried out in Sawahira al-Sharqiyya in the central Jerusalem district.

In Jenin in the Northern occupied West Bank, Israeli forces detained Omar Ghalib Abu Bakir and his brother Jamal, local people said

The UN recorded an average of 95 weekly raids in the West Bank in 2016, and 73 weekly raids on average thus far in 2017.

According to prisoners’ rights group Addameer, 6,500 Palestinians were held in Israeli prisons as of January, 53 of whom were women and 300 of them minors. Some 420 Palestinians were detained throughout the month of February alone, including 70 minors and 22 women and girls.

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