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Cancer patient among 13 Palestinians detained by Israel in the occupied territories

Cancer patient among 13 Palestinians detained by Israel in the occupied territories
Israeli occupation soldiers detaining a Palestinian in the occupied territories. (File photo)

RAMALLAH, Monday, October 26, 2020 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation forces today detained 13 Palestinians, most of them former prisoner and including a cancer patient, from various parts of the occupied territories, according to the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS).

In Bethlehem in the south of the West Bank, Israeli soldiers arrested 46-year-old Nidal Abu Ahour, a former prisoner who is suffering from cancer and kidney failure and who was released from prison in July after a serious deterioration in his health.

Another Palestinian was detained from Bethlehem, said PPS.

In Hebron district, also in the south of the West Bank, a military raid in al-Tabaqa village, west of the city, resulted in the detention of two people.

PPS said in a statement that Israeli forces rounded up four Palestinians after storming their houses in Jenin city in the north of the West Bank.

In Nablus district, the Israeli military raided Sebastia village, ransacked three houses and detained a resident.

In Ramallah and al-Bireh district, soldiers detained two former prisoners.

In Jerusalem district, forces detained two Palestinians in separate raids in the East Jerusalem neighborhoods of Isawiyya and al-Tur.

K.F./M.K.

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