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Israeli occupation forces detain 10 Palestinians, injure another in West Bank raids

Israeli occupation forces detain 10 Palestinians, injure another in West Bank raids
Israeli occupation soldiers detaining Palestinians in the occupied territories. (File photo)

RAMALLAH, Thursday, February 4, 2021 (WAFA) – Israeli forces today detained 10 Palestinians and injured another across the occupied West Bank, according to local and Palestinian security sources.

They said Israeli forces rounded up four Palestinians from the Ramallah and al-Bireh district, two of them detained after storming their family houses in Umm al-Sharayet neighborhood of al-Bireh, a former prisoner detained after breaking into and searching his family house in Deir Abu Mashaal village, northwest of Ramallah, and the fourth was detained in a raid in Rantis town, northwest of Ramallah city.

In Bethlehem in the south of the West Bank, the Israeli military stormed Aida refugee camp, north of the city, where soldiers rounded up three Palestinians, including two former prisoners.

In Jenin district in the north of the West Bank, the director of the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) office in Jenin, Muntaser Mansour, said an Israeli military raid in Wadi Burqin village, west of the city resulted in the detention of two brothers.

He added that soldiers conducted a similar raid in Kafr Rai town, southwest of Jenin, where soldiers broke into and ransacked the family house of a former prisoner.

Still in Jenin district, soldiers raided Jaba town, south of the city, where they detained a former prisoner.

During the unfolding confrontations, the soldiers opened fire and shot teargas grenades at local youngsters injuring one with a live round in the hand, suffocating others with teargas, and causing damage to two local vehicles.

K.F./M.K.

 

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