JERUSALEM, Tuesday, February 19, 2019 (WAFA) – Israeli military police Tuesday afternoon detained five Palestinians from East Jerusalem.
WAFA correspondet said that Israeli military police three Palestinian women after they exited Al-Aqsa Mosque compound through the Lions’ Gate, also known as Bab al-Asbat.
Another Palestinian was rounded up Tuesday afternoon as he exited the mosque compound through the same gate.
Meanwhile, police detained a Palestinian man after storming his family’s house in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of al-Thuri.
They were transferred in police vehicles to a police station in Jerusalem’s Old City. The reason of their detention remains unknown.
This came after Israeli forces detained 16 Palestinians in multiple overnight raids across the West Bank.
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