JERUSALEM, October 5, 2015 (WAFA) – Israeli forces Monday detained eight Palestinians, including two minors, and assaulted another during clashes and predawn raids into several West Bank districts, said security sources.  

Israeli police detained a Palestinian minor during violent clashes that broke out in Jerusalem’s neighborhood of Silwan, south of Al-Aqsa Mosque Compound.

Clashes reported by WAFA correspondent, broke out in the Silwan locality of al-Mahdada, where Israeli police confronted Palestinian youths, firing concussion grenades, tear gas canisters and rubber-coated steel bullets at them.

The detainee was identified as Ahmad Naser, 17, from the Jerusalem’s neighborhood of Ras al-‘Amud.

Clashes have reportedly also broken out between Israeli police and Palestinians in the vicinity of the Israeli checkpoint near the entrance of Shu’fat refugee camp since early morning.

Furthermore, Israeli police detained several hours later two Palestinians, a woman and a minor, from the vicinity of Bab al-Asbat (Lion’s Gate), where Palestinians barricaded themselves after being barred entry into the Old City.

The detainees, identified as Samaher Farran, 38, and Mohammad al-Karaki, 15, coming from Jafa and Jerusalem respectively, were taken to al-Qashala interrogation and detention center.

Meanwhile in Nablus district, Israeli forces detained two Palestinians and assaulted another during a predawn raid into Yatama, a village to the south of the city.

Heavily guarded troops raided the village, where they detained a local Palestinian identified as Badi Snubar, 47, after breaking into and ransacking his house. During the predawn raid, Snubar’s wife, Iman, 45, was physically assaulted by troops.

Israeli forces also broke into and ransacked several other Palestinian houses during predawn raids into the towns of Huwwara, Qabalan and Beit Furik as well as Osarin village, south of the city.

Furthermore, forces also detained a Palestinian after breaking and wrecking havoc into his house in the city.

Director of Nablus-based Palestinian Prisoners’ Club, Ra’ed ‘Amer, identified the detainee as Yahya Mohammad, who was brutally assaulted by troops using clubs and metal bars. The activist said sniffer dogs snapped off Mohammad’s clothes.

Forces, according to ‘Amer, also raided the Nablus locality of ‘Iraq At-Tayeh, where they detained a Palestinian identified as Zeid Younes.

During the raid, forces smashed goods and seized an unidentified sum of cash belonging to Younes.

In the meantime in Qalqilya district, forces stationed at a checkpoint near Jit, a village to the northeast of the city, a Palestinian identified as Qusai Barghouth from the nearby village of Baqat al-Hatab.

In the meantime in Bethlehem district, forces raided Hindaza village, south of the city, where they detained a local Palestinian after breaking into and searching his house. The detainee was identified as Wael Jalghif, 24.

Meanwhile in Hebron, forces raided al-Arrub refugee camp, where they detained a student after breaking into the Palestine Technical College.

Forces, according to WAFA correspondent, cordoned the college off, closing its main entrances, adjacent to Jerusalem-Hebron Street, and prevented students’ access into and out of the college. Israeli soldiers then detained a student identified as ‘Amr al-‘Allami, 20, who was moved to the Gush Etzion detention and interrogation center.

Forces also prevented local anti-settlement activist, Mohammad ‘Awad, from filming to document the raid and briefly detained him for three hours.

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