RAMALLAH– A wheelchair-bound and a cancer patient were among six Palestinians the Israeli occupation forces detained during raids at their homes in the occupied territories today.

Palestinian sources said soldiers detained Ayman Abu Shehadeh, a handicapped who moves only in a wheelchair, after raiding this family home in the village of Burin, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus.

Shehadeh was among five Palestinians the Israeli army detained in the Nablus district this morning including two detained at Balata refugee camp and two detained at an Israeli army checkpoint east of Nablus city.

In the Ramallah area town of Kufr Ein, soldiers detained Asef Rifai, 20, during a raid at his family home.

Rifai, according to the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS), is diagnosed with cancer in the colon and lymph nodes, was injured three times and was detained three times before this one while he was still a minor and held in prison for resisting the occupation.

The PPS quoted Rifai’s father saying that his son is seriously ill and needs continuous medical care.

Source: Palestine News & Information Agency