JERUSALEM, March 14, 2017 (WAFA) – Israeli forces Tuesday detained 17 Palestinians, including a cartographer and two minors, during predawn raids across a number of West Bank districts, said Palestine Prisoner’s Society.

Israeli police raided the Arab Studies Association’s cartography department in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina, detaining director of the department Khalil Tafakji.

They conducted a similar raid into the East Jerusalem town of Hizma, handcuffing and detaining five Palestinians.

Another Palestinian, reportedly a 14-year-old minor, was detained from Jerusalem’s Old City.

Meanwhile, Israeli forces detained two Palestinians after storming and ransacking their family homes in Marah Rabah, south of Bethlehem in the southern West Bank.

Similar raids were conducted across Bethlehem districts, where two other Palestinians were detained.

Elsewhere in the southern West Bank, forces detained two Palestinians, including a 15-year-old Palestinian minor near a school in the southern part of Hebron city.

The minor detainee reportedly comes from Beit Awwa town, southwest of Hebron.

Separate military raids were conducted into the Hebron neighborhood of Jabal Abu Rumman and Yatta town, south of the city, where a number of Palestinian homes were ransacked.

Besides, a Palestinian was detained during a raid into Bilin village, northwest of Ramallah in the central West Bank.

Meanwhile, large troops raided Qabatia town, south of Jenin, ransacking several homes and detaining two Palestinians.

A similar raid was also conducted into the northern West Bank district of Nablus, where a Palestinian was detained.

K.F.