A Total of 19 Palestinians Detained in Overnight Israeli Raids

Rasa - Israeli forces detained on Monday 19 Palestinians including several minors and an elderly during predawn raids across the West Bank and East Jerusalem, according to Palestinian prisoner society (PPS).

News ID: 436514

Date: 20 February 2018 - 20:49

RNA - Israeli forces raided Qalqilya in the North of West Bank and detained three minors aged 16, 17 and 19 years. Soldiers also detained four Palestinians from Nablus and three others from Bethlehem, Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.

PPS reported that Israeli forces detained an elderly man, identified as 75-year-old Suleiman al-Tamimi from Hebron, in addition to two minors aged 13 years who were detained near Hebron’s Ibrahimi mosque.

Forces also detained one Palestinian from al-Ram, North of Jerusalem, and five others from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, including two minors aged 14, another 17 years of age, a fourth 18 and the fifth 20.

Another one from Issawiya neighborhood in East Jerusalem was detained.

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