RAMALLAH, Saturday, December 30, 2023 (WAFA) – A critically wounded teenager detained from an ambulance last night was among 14 Palestinians detained overnight and this morning by the Israeli occupation forces in the occupied West Bank, according to various sources.

The Ministry of Health said soldiers at a checkpoint east of Qalqilya, in the north of the West Bank, stopped an ambulance transporting a 17-year-old boy who was shot in the chest and was critically wounded from a hospital in Qalqilya to a hospital in Nablus and detained the wounded youth.

Soldiers also detained two men after beating them and seizing their cars in Masafer Yatta in the south of the West Bank, according to local activist Ratib al-Jabour, who said that the soldiers raided Arab al-Najadeh community, searched homes, and assaulted two brothers before detaining them and seizing their cars.

Prisoners’ groups said seven Palestinians were also detained in an army raid of Jalazon refugee camp, near Ramallah out of 10 held and interrogated by the army in the early morning raid of the camp.

Others were also detained in raids in the Nablus and Hebron governorates, they said, indicating that the Israeli occupation forces have detained 4860 Palestinians in the West Bank since the start of the aggression on October 7.

M.K.