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Israeli forces detain 12 Palestinians in West Bank raids

Published: 21 Sep 2022 - 11:54 am | Last Updated: 21 Sep 2022 - 11:57 am
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Israeli forces today overnight detained 12 Palestinians from various parts of the occupied West Bank, according to Palestine News Agency. 

 Israeli forces rounded up four Palestinians, including two brothers and a 72-year-old elderly, after storming the houses of their houses in Dura city, southwest of Hebron.

The soldiers rounded up two others; one from Kharsa village, southwest of Hebron city, and a former prisoner who went on a 141-day-long hunger strike from at-Tabaqa village, west of the city.

Elsewhere in the southern West Bank, a raid in Dheisha refugee camp, south of Bethlehem, resulting in the detention of another.

In Ramallah district, a convoy of army vehicles stormed Kafr Ni'ma village, west of the city, where the soldiers muscled inside two houses, conducted thorough search and eventually detained two others.

They also showed up at a house in the nearby village of ‘Ein A‘rik, broke inside and ransacked it before detaining another.

In the northern West Bank, the gun-toting soldiers rounded up two brothers, one of whom is a former prisoner, and ransacked their family house in Dhinnaba village, east of Tulkarm.

On Tuesday evening, the heavily-armed police a Palestinian from Sur Baher neighborhood, southeast of Jerusalem.

The father-of-five’s wife is already serving a 10-year sentence in Israeli custody.

Israeli forces frequently raid Palestinian houses almost on a daily basis across the West Bank on the pretext of searching for "wanted" Palestinians, triggering clashes with residents.