JERUSALEM, August 23, 2017 (WAFA) – Israeli police detained Wednesday seven Palestinians, including an elderly man, from several areas in the occupied city of Jerusalem, WAFA correspondent said.

At the same time, police prevented Mohammad Froukh, a Palestinian detainee from East Jerusalem, from meeting with his lawyer for two days, according to Wadi Hilweh Information Center.

Froukh and his daughter Hiba, 15, were detained on Tuesday after Israeli police raided and ransacked their home in Silwan. They were also beaten during the arrest. The daughter was later released.

WAFA correspondent said Israeli security services and police raided a house in the neighborhood of Bab Hutta in the Old City of Jerusalem  and detained an elderly man as they handed his son a summons to appear before the security service. Police seize their personal mobile phones and computers.

Three Palestinians from the town of Silwan were also detained, two from the neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah and another from the neighborhood of Mount of Olives. One Palestinian was detained at his Kufr Aqab home that falls outside the apartheid wall to the north of Jerusalem.

Meanwhile, Israeli soldiers detained four more Palestinians from the village of Beit Izja, northwest of Jerusalem, according to the Palestinian Prisoner‘s Society.

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