JERUSALEM, August 16, 2018 (WAFA) – The Israeli occupation authorities detained a woman in East Jerusalem on Thursday while eight other women were ordered not to enter Al-Aqsa Mosque for two weeks, according to WAFA correspondent.

He said Israeli police detained Nisreen Dwayat, wife of Jerusalem Palestinian lawmaker Ahmad Attoun, who was expelled from the city and forced to live in exile in the West Bank, during a raid at her home in Sur Baher, an East Jerusalem neighborhood.

Police also detained three other people from East Jerusalem during overnight raids at their homes, including the son of Palestinian from Issawiyeh neighborhood serving a life sentence in prison for resisting the occupation, and a former prisoner and his brother from the Old City of Jerusalem.

Meanwhile, Israeli police released late Wednesday eight Palestinian women out of 10 detained earlier in the day as they were leaving Al-Aqsa Mosque in the Old City and ordered the eight, residents of Arab towns inside Israel, to keep away from the Muslim holy site for two weeks.

The remaining two, from occupied East Jerusalem, were kept in detention at the Jaffa Gate police station without any reason given for holding them.

(Updated at 12:03 p.m.: Israeli police released Dwayat and the three other Palestinians from East Jerusalem detained earlier in the day.)

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