Israeli Forces Detain Four Including 16-Year-Old Palestinian in Raids across West Bank

Rasa - Israeli forces detained four Palestinians, including a teenager, during raids across the occupied West Bank, according to local Palestinian sources.

News ID: 433168

Date: 16 October 2017 - 19:48

RNA - In the Northern West Bank district of Jenin, locals from the town of Yaabad that Israeli forces detained former prisoner Taher Jawad Badarneh, 23, and Qassem Khalid Abu Bakr, 16, after raiding and searching their homes, Ma'an reported.

In the Nablus district, Israeli forces detained Ahmad Husni Jaradat while he was passing through a flying checkpoint near the town of Sebastiya.

Jaradat, according to locals, is from the Jenin-area town of Silat al-Harthiya. In the Southern West Bank district of Hebron, Israeli forces detained Musaab al-Sweiti from the Beit Awwa town.

Israeli raids in Palestinian towns, villages, and refugee camps are a daily occurrence in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.

According to United Nations documentation, Israeli forces conducted 121 search and arrest operations across the West Bank and arrested 205 Palestinians, including nine children, between September 26 and October 9.

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