Israeli forces kidnap 23 Palestinians in West Bank raids

Three children among 23 Palestinians Israel detained in Jerusalem, West Bank raids

Israeli occupation forces detained on Monday 23 Palestinians, including three children, from occupied Jerusalem and the West Bank, said the Palestine Prisoner Society (PPS).


It said Israeli police raided the Occupied Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiyeh in the dead of the night, breaking into homes and detaining at least 10 Palestinians, including a child.

Over the last several months, Issawiyeh, a Palestinian village of some 20,000 people, has been facing a rise in police harassment and raids that have disrupted daily life in the neighborhood.

Meanwhile, PPS said that three Palestinians, including a 17-year-old teenager, were detained from the southern West Bank district of Hebron.

In Bethlehem district, soldiers detained three Palestinians, including two in an Israeli military raid at al-Azzeh refugee camp, north of Bethlehem city, one of them a 14-year-old boy.

In the northern West Bank, Israeli military raided Anabta town, east of Tulkarm city, where soldiers detained a Palestinian, as reported in the PPS statement.

PPS added that a similar Israeli military raid was conducted in Attil town, northeast of Tulkarm, resulting in the detention of another man.

In Ramallah district, Israeli forces rounded up two Palestinians after ransacking their home in Kobar town, north of the city.

During ensuing confrontations, soldiers opened fire at local youngsters who protested the raid. No injuries were reported though.

In addition, PPS confirmed that a 13-year-old Palestinian was detained from Aqbat Jabr refugee camp, southwest of Jericho.

Two other Palestinians were rounded up at Tammun town, south of Tubas city in the northern Jordan Valley.

Israeli forces kidnap Palestinian in Bethlehem

The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Sunday evening kidnaped a Palestinian young man during a campaign in al-Rashayda village, east of Bethlehem in the West Bank.


According to local sources, the IOF kidnaped 38-year-old Faysal al-Rashayda after ransacking his home in the village, with no known reason.


Last week, 60 Palestinians were taken prisoners during IOF campaigns in different West Bank areas.

Footage documents Israeli soldiers arresting 13-year-old boy in Hebron

A video footage recently released by Israeli human rights group, B’Tselem, showed Israeli soldiers detaining a 13-year-old Palestinian boy in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and, while blindfolded, walking him through the streets.

On November 3 at about 11:30 am local time, soldiers detained Abed al-Razeq Idris, 13, put him in a jeep, blindfolded him and drove him around. They then took him to another neighborhood about one kilometer from his home where they took him out of the jeep and walked him, blindfolded, through the streets.

When his father arrived, B’Tselem said, the soldiers refused to turn the boy over. Instead, they drove him to a military post and then to the police station in the nearby settlement of Kiryat Arba. Abed al-Razeq was asked about stone-throwers and sent home alone at about 2:00 pm.

“This case is no aberration,” says the group. “It is part of the routine violence imposed on Palestinians in Hebron by Israeli security forces and settlers, including physical attacks, threats, verbal abuse, soldiers’ incursions into homes (usually at night) – and the false arrest of minors and adults.”

It added, “Israel cites security to justify this conduct and the segregation it imposes on the city. Yet as this case proves, these claims are baseless and serve merely to bolster a policy of driving Palestinians to leave Hebron by making daily life unbearable.”

Israeli forces injure dozens, detain two in Jerusalem

Dozens of Palestinian citizens were injured while two others were arrested when Israeli occupation forces (IOF) attacked Palestinian homes in Al-Isawiya town in Occupied Jerusalem on Friday night.


Local sources said that the IOF stormed Obeid neighborhood in Al-Isawiya and heavily fired tear gas bombs at Palestinian homes. Dozens of citizens suffered breathing difficulties as a result of inhaling tear gas.

The same sources reported that two Palestinian youths were kidnapped by the IOF soldiers before the latter withdrew from the town.

The detainees were identified as Alaa Obeid and Mahmoud al-Rajabi.

After two months of hunger strike, two prisoners reported in a feeble health condition

Two months of hunger strike by two Palestinian prisoners in Israel has left them in poor health condition, today said the Palestinian Prisoners Commission.


Hassan Abed Rabbo, spokesman for the commission, said that Ahmad Zahran, 42, from Deir Abu Mishal near Ramallah, has been on hunger strike for 63 days, and Musab Hindi, 29, from Tel village in the north of the West Bank, for 61 days in protest against their administrative detention without charge or trial.


He said both prisoners feel very weak and exhaustion and refuse to take any supplements or undergo physical examination.

Abed Rabbo warned that the two may be in danger of losing their life after more than 60 days of hunger strike and due to lack of salt and fluids in their body.

Israeli forces injure Palestinian, detain five in West Bank

The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at daybreak Friday arrested five Palestinian citizens and injured a sixth during raid campaigns in different West Bank areas.


Local sources said that four Palestinian citizens were arrested in a large-scale campaign in Dura town south of Hebron City.


A fifth Palestinian was kidnapped from his home in al-Am'ari refugee camp in Ramallah.

In the same area, a Palestinian youth was injured after an IOF military jeep deliberately hit him.

Meanwhile, violent clashes broke out between the IOF soldiers and Palestinian youths when the former stormed Qabatiya town, south of Jenin, and attacked a Palestinian house.

No arrests were reported there.