Israeli Army Detains 25 Palestinians in West Bank, East Jerusalem

Rasa - Israeli forces detained at least 25 Palestinians, including at least three minors in multiple areas across the occupied Palestinian territory.

News ID: 429970

Date: 29 May 2017 - 19:26

RNA - Locals in the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya said Israeli forces detained 13 young Palestinian men and teenagers during the raids, Maan reported.

Those minors, arrested in the raids across the occupied Palestinian territoryidentified as Ihab Muhammad Ubeid, Wassim Nayif Ubeid, Salih Ghassan Ubeid, Daoud Moussa Dirbas, Wahib Shawkat Ubeid, Muhammad Ibrahim Darwish, Muhammad Jamal Awwad, Mansour Mahmoud, Ihab Shawkat Ubeid, Ghanim Mustafa, Yasser Darwish, Wael Mahmoud, and Ayoub Ubeid.

Meanwhile, in the occupied West Bank beyond Israel’s illegal separation wall, the Israeli army carried out multiple predawn detention raids in various districts.

In the southern occupied West Bank district of Hebron, locals said that Israeli forces detained an “injured” young Palestinian man, Abdullah Muheisin, from al-Arrub refugee camp, as well as Fahd Abu Sbeih from Hebron city.

In the southern Bethlehem district, Israeli forces stormed the town of Tuqu east of Bethlehem city and detained two 15-year-old boys, Mumin Ibrahim al-Umour and Salim Samih Misbah.

Locals said Israeli forces ransacked several homes before detaining the two children, and that clashes broke out between soldiers and locals after the detention raids.

In the central occupied West Bank, a Palestnian man was detained in the town of Silwad north of Ramallah, and one Palestinian was detained in Aqabat Jaber refugee camp in the Jordan Valley region south of Jericho city.

In Azzun village east of Qalqiliya in the northern West Bank, locals said Israeli forces detained Uday Saqir Salim and Muhammad Imad Salim.

Israeli raids in Palestinian towns, villages, and refugee camps are a daily occurrence in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem.The United Nations recorded an average of 95 weekly raids in the occupied West Bank in 2016, and an average of 70 raids a week so far 2017.

According to prisoners’ rights group Addameer, 6,300 Palestinians were held in Israeli prisons as of April, including 300 minors, 61 women, and 500 under administrative detention, Israel's contested policy of imprisonment without charge or trial.

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