NABLUS, March 3, 2016 (WAFA) - Israeli forces Thursday overnight detained 10 Palestinians and assaulted another in the West Bank, said security sources.

In the northern West Bank district of Nablus, Israeli forces detained five Palestinians, who remain unidentified, after breaking into and ransacking their houses in Iraq Burin village, south of the city.

The detention raid came as Israeli forces closed the entrance of the village with earth mounds following an alleged stabbing attack.

Forces also sealed all roads leading out of the northern West Bank city, including Huwwara checkpoint, Awarta checkpoint and Yitzhar road that connect Nablus with the northern West Bank cities of Tulkarm and Qalqiliya, for Palestinian traffic travelling both ways.

The road closures came after two soldiers were stabbed and lightly injured in an attack near Burin village, south of Nablus, on Wednesday evening. The attack was allegedly carried out by two Palestinians who fled the scene.

To the north of Nablus, in Jenin district, forces detained three Palestinians, including one on a northern Jordan Valley checkpoint, and physically assaulted another.

Forces detained Imad Saba‘na, 19, and Yazid Arqawi, 17, after breaking into and ransacking their family houses in Jenin city.

During the raid into the family house of Arqawi, forces locked the family inside a room, and interrogated and physically assaulted Yazid’s cousin, Ahmad, 17. After being brutally beaten up, Yazid was rushed into a Jenin hospital for treatment.

In addition, a Palestinian from the city was detained while attempting to cross al-Hamra military checkpoint in the northern Jordan Valley. The detainee was identified as Muwaffaq Abul-Hasan.

Another Palestinian from the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem was detained after he appeared before Israeli intelligence. Muhammad Awad, 20, was interrogated and detained after he turned himself to intelligence at Checkpoint 300, located between Bethlehem and Jerusalem.

This came as forces raided Hindaza, a village to the south of the city, where they stormed and ransacked Anwar Zbun and Nasser Jubran’s family houses.

Soldiers also stormed and tempered with the contents of Isma‘il Hamamra, Yasser Hamamra and Abdul-Aziz Shusha during a predawn raid into Husan village, west of the city.

To the south of Bethlehem, in Hebron city, forces detained Fadi al-Tamimi, 23, after storming and ransacking his family house in the city.

This came as forces stepped up movement restrictions at the entrances of Beit Ummar town, north of Hebron.

WAFA reported on local activist Muhammad Awad as saying forces stopped Palestinian-registered vehicles travelling northbound and inspected passengers’ identity cards.

On Wednesday evening, undercover Israeli forces detained a Palestinian from the Ramallah neighborhood of At-Tira in the central West Bank.

Nidal al-Jarushi, who holds an Israeli identification card, was detained from al-Mansi restaurant in the vicinity of First Ramallah Group premises.

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