NABLUS, Tuesday, February 26, 2019 (WAFA) – Israeli forces ransacked a number of houses, seized cash and detained 21 Palestinians in overnight raids across various parts of the West Bank, said the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) in a press release.

It said Israeli forces detained seven Palestinians from the northern West Bank district of Nablus.

WAFA learned from security sources that Israeli military vehicles raided Asira al-Shamaliya town, north of Nablus city, where soldiers detained five Palestinians.

Security sources added that soldiers also carried out two other separate raids into Tell and Sarra villages, southwest of Nablus, resulting in the detention of two Palestinians, including a former prisoner.

Elsewhere in the northern West Bank, PPS added that five Palestinians were detained from Toubas district.

Director of PPS chapter in Tubas Mahmoud Sawafta told WAFA that Israeli soldiers rounded up four Palestinians, including a father along his two sons, in Toubas city, and a fifth detained from Tammoun town, northeast of Tubas.

In the southern West Bank, PPS said that five Palestinians were detained in multiple raids across Bethlehem district.

Security sources told WAFA a Palestinian was detained from Beit Fajjar town, south of Bethlehem city, two others from the neighboring town of al-Khader, and one from the Bethlehem city neighborhood of al-Manawra.

In al-Eizariya town, east of Jerusalem, Israeli troops detained four Palestinians, including a prisoner’s son and a 14-year-old child.

Meanwhile, the Israeli military court at Ofer, near Ramallah, approved the administrative detention orders against 13 Palestinians.

The court approved the orders for nine Palestinians to serve six months in administrative detention and four others to four months.

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