HEBRON, January 3, 2016 (WAFA) – Israeli forces
overnight detained 12 Palestinians from the West Bank districts, including
Jerusalem, as well as summoned four others for interrogation, according to the
Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) and security sources.
In Hebron, armed Israeli soldiers detained
seven Palestinians from across Hebron district.
Local Saber Abu Sneneh, 25, was detained from
the city, after forces physically assaulted him and his entire family. Forces
further searched the house thoroughly.
Forces also detained Ahmad M. Awad, 18, and
ex-detainee Montaser A. Awad, 23, who spent three years in Israeli jails.
Soldiers reportedly raided the home of local Naser Ikhlil, in search of his two
sons, who were at work at the time of the raid.
Locals Mohammed Obaido, 21, and Ishaq
al-Jnaidi, 27, were also detained from the Hebron area.
As forces withdrew from the area, provoked
locals hurled stones and empty glass bottles at the army, which responded by
firing tear gas canisters and stun grenades toward locals and their homes.
Meanwhile, in Hebron’s Beit Owwa town, the army
detained two locals identified as A’qel Ismail Masalmeh, and Mo’tasem Farooq
Masalmeh.
In Bethlehem, forces detained local Yousif
As-Shaikh, 21, after raiding and searching his family’s home in the village of
Marah Rabah to the south.
Another Palestinian was reportedly detained
during clashes that broke out earlier Sunday in Dheisheh Refugee Camp to the
south of Bethlehem. He was identified as Ra’ed Abu hadid.
In Bethlehem’s village of Dar Salah to the
east, forces summoned a father, his son, and daughter, to appear before the
Israeli intelligence at Gush Etzion settlement bloc for interrogation. They
were identified as Jamal Salah, 46, Suhaib, 22, and Wisal, 21, respectively.
In Nablus, local Ra’ed Abu Shlal, 33, was
detained from inside Balata Refugee Camp to the east.
Meanwhile in the East Jerusalem town of
al-Issawiya, Israeli police detained two brothers identified as Mahmoud and Murad
Mhaisen. Police also summoned another Palestinian from the town to appear for
interrogation. He was identified as Ala’a Salah.
PPS noted that a total of at
least nine others were detained by Israeli forces during the past two days.
T.R.
