BETHLEHEM, Monday, April 22, 2019 (WAFA) – Israeli forces detained 10 Palestinians, including three teens, and ransacked many houses across the West Bank, said the Palestine Prisoner’s Society (PPS).

Israeli forces detained four Palestinians, including a 16-year-old teen, from the southern West Bank district of Bethlehem.

Three of the four Palestinians were rounded up from Beit Jala city, west of Bethlehem, while the fourth was rounded up from Battir town, also located to the west of Bethlehem.

In the northern West Bank, Israeli forces detained a Palestinian after ransacking his family’s house in Jenin refugee camp.

PPS said that Israeli military raided Shufa village, southeast of Tulkarem, where soldiers rounded up a former prisoner.

PPS also confirmed an overnight military raid in the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, resulting in the detention of a Palestinian.

Elaborating on the Qalqilia raid, witnesses said that soldiers showed up at the family house of the young man and searched it, turning it upside down, before physically assaulting his sister and seizing unidentified sum of cash.

The detainee’s sister was brutally beaten up, requiring her to be taken to hospital for treatment.

In the central West Bank, PPS confirmed that Israeli forces detained a Palestinian teen from Kobar village, northwest of Ramallah.

In Jerusalem district, Israeli police rounded up two Palestinian teens, both aged 15, from Shufat refugee camp in Jerusalem.

Meanwhile, the PPS said the Israeli authorities issued 75 administrative detention orders, new and renewed, so far in April against Palestinians  ranging in time between two to six months.

K.F./M.K.