RAMALLAH, June 20, 2017 (WAFA) – Israeli forces Tuesday detained 17 Palestinians, including a teenager, during military raids into various West Bank districts, said the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS).

PPS said forces detained four Palestinians in the village of Jiftlik, in Jericho, in addition to four others, including a teenager and an ex-detainee, in Tulkarem governorate.

Three Palestinians, including two aged 19, were detained after forces raided and searched their family homes in the Hebron area.

In the Jenin area, Israeli soldiers detained a 22-year-old youth after raiding and searching his family home in the town of Kufr Ra’i to the south of Jenin.

Forces also detained three Palestinians from the Jenin area at  a number of military checkpoints erected by the Israeli army.

In Bethlehem, the army detained two youths after raiding and searching their family homes in the town of al-Khader, to the south, and the village of Husan to the west.

T.R.