RAMALLAH, June 27, 2013 (WAFA) – Three Palestinian teenagers Thursday were shot and injured, and more than 20 others were arrested during Israeli arrest campaigns across the West Bank, according to local and security sources.

The coordinator of the popular committee against settlements and the Apartheid Wall, Mohammad Awad, said that Israeli forces conducted an arrest campaign in the town on Beit Ummar, north of Hebron, which lead to the injury of three Palestinians between the ages of 16 and 17, who were shot with Israeli rubber-coated steel bullets.

Six Palestinians; four of them between the ages of 18 and 22, were also arrested during the arrest campaign, bringing up the number of Palestinians arrested from the town to 66, most of them are minors, since the beginning of 2013.

Ministry of Detainees and ex-Detainees' Affairs, in a statement, said that a large military force stormed the village of Al Mazra'a al Qibliya, north of Ramallah, raided several houses while firing tear gas and acoustic bombs at residents and terrorizing children, leading to clashes with the forces and the arrest of eight Palestinians.

Forces stormed several neighborhoods in the Nablus area, raided and searched several Palestinian homes, tampering with their contents, leading to confrontations between them and the residents and the arrest of several Palestinians who were seen taken and put inside the Israeli military jeeps. The identities of only four of the arrested were known.

In Tubas, forces arrested two Palestinians in their early twenties after raiding and searching their family homes.

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