HEBRON, April 2, 2014 (WAFA) – Israeli forces Wednesday arrested five people in Hebron, Bethlehem, Jenin, while settlers attacked two minors, in addition to three arrests in Jerusalem, according to local and security sources.

In Hebron, army forces arrested a 24-year-old near Etzion military compound, while they arrested two youths, in their twenties, after raiding and searching their homes and sabotaging with the content.

Security sources said Israeli settlers assaulted and severely beat up two children, 6 and 13, in Hebron before they were transferred to hospital for medical treatment. Soldiers also beat up a youth in Hebron old city, and he was transferred to hospital.

The Israeli forces set several checkpoints at the entrance to many villages and towns in Hebron district, checking identity cards of the passengers and causing a traffic jam.

In Bethlehem district, Israeli forces arrested a 24-year-old from Qalandiya refugee camp near Jerusalem while he was visiting his in-laws in Beit Jala to the west of Bethlehem.

Meanwhile in Jenin, forces stormed the town of Ya’bad amid firing stun grenades and tear gas canisters in the vicinity of a school, provoking residents and leading to confrontations. Several people sustained suffocation by tear gas, but no arrests were reported.

Forces further arrested a youth, 33, from the village of Al-Yamoun near Jenin while he was passing through Al-Hamra checkpoint in the northern Jordan Valley.

Meanwhile, director of the prisoners’ club in Jerusalem, Nasser Qaws, said Israeli police arrested three people, including a teenager, after raiding either their homes or workplace in Jerusalem.

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