RAMALLAH, Tuesday, July 02, 2019 (WAFA) – Israeli forces detained early this morning seven Palestinian students of Birzeit University in the occupied West Bank, including the former head of the student council, according to local sources.

They told WAFA that Israeli soldiers detained the former head of the student council Usama Fakhouri and another student at their homes in nearby Jalazoun refugee, as well as two other students after raiding their student residence near the university, two at their family home in Beitunia, near Ramallah, and another at the residence of his family in Jifna, also near Ramallah.

No reason was given for the detention.

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