HEBRON, Tuesday, February 05, 2019 (WAFA) – Israeli forces Tuesday held five Palestinian teachers and a student in the illegal Kiryat Arba settlement, east of the southern West Bank city of Hebron.

Director of the Education Ministry’s Hebron Office Atef al-Jamal said that the contact was lost with the five teachers and a student shortly after they left their hometown of Beit Kahel, northwest of Hebron, en route to the Hajariyah School in Hebron’s Old Town.

Al-Jamal added that Palestinian security services opened an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the incident to find out later that teachers along with the student were briefly held for several hours by Israeli forces in Kiryat Arba.

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