Israeli occupation forces detain 15 Palestinians from the occupied territories

Israeli occupation forces today and last night detained 15 Palestinians from various parts of the occupied territories, according to local and Palestinian security sources.

They said that Israeli forces detained a Palestinian in a predawn raid into Ramallah city.

In the southern West Bank, Israeli soldiers detained a 15-year-old teen in Tuqu town, east of Bethlehem, after raiding his family home.

They also detained a prisoner’s wife after breaking into her family house in Bethlehem city.

Elsewhere in the southern West Bank, the sources confirmed a raid in Surif town, north of Hebron, resulting in the detention of another.

Israeli military vehicles stormed al-Tabaqa village, south of Dura, where the soldiers arrested a former prisoner.

In the northern West Bank, heavily-armed soldiers detained two people in the city of Nablus.

The soldiers violently dispersed local young men who protested the raid, triggering confrontations and injuring two by bullet shrapnel.

In Tulkarm district, the soldiers forcibly entered two houses in Faroun town, south of the northern West Bank city, conducted a thorough search, and detained two brothers.

In Jenin district, soldiers rounded up two others from Rummana village, west of the city, and ransacked the houses of their families.

They also stormed the family house of a former prisoner, conducted a thorough search, and threatened the family to storm the house again should the former prisoner not turn himself to the military.

The sources said that another was rounded up from Aqbat Jaber refugee camp, southwest of Jericho.

Meanwhile, Israeli police rounded up three others; one from the Jerusalem neighborhood of al-Isawiyya and two others after assaulting them from the Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, as reported by Wadi Hilweh Information Center.

Source: Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA)