Israeli forces detain 16 Palestinians overnight

BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces detained at least 16 Palestinians between Monday night and Tuesday morning across the occupied Palestinian territory and Israel, Palestinian and Israeli sources reported.Israeli police spokeswoman Luba al-Samri said that two Palestinians from the southern occupied West Bank were detained in northwestern Israel on Monday night.Al-Samri said that the two Palestinians were detained in Nahariya for having forged Israeli IDs, and driving without a license or car insurance.Israeli police has already indicated that it would ask a magistrate’s court to extend the remand of the two young men for further questioning.In occupied East Jerusalem, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said that five Palestinians were detained in the neighborhood of Issawiya.The group identified them as Muhammad Kayid Mahmoud, Amir Dirbas, Nadim Safadi, Khalid Abu Ghush, and Abed Dari, adding that Safadi, Abu Ghush, and Dari were minors.Meanwhile, in the northern occupied West Bank, PPS said that Baraa Jamal Khalil was detained in the city of Tulkarem, while Omar Sharayaa, a resident of the Askar refugee camp, was detained at a checkpoint near the village of Deir Sharaf in the Nablus district.An Israeli army spokesperson told Ma’an that a “Hamas operative” was detained in Tulkarem, while another Palestinian was detained in the Tulkarem-area village of Khirbet al-Tayyah.In the central West Bank district of Ramallah, PPS reported that Mustafa Hussein Sharaka, Mahmoud Wajdi Safi, and Maruf Bajis Nakhla were detained in the al-Jalazun refugee camp.The army spokesperson said that three alleged Hamas members were detained in al-Jalazun.In the Hebron district, PPS stated that Israeli forces detained Amin Imad Sleibi, 15, Wahid Ibrahim Abu Maria, 21, and Yusri Yaqoub Skafi, 25.Locals said that Abu Maria and Sleibi were detained in the village of Beit Ummar, while Skafi was detained in the city of Hebron.The army spokesperson confirmed two detentions in Beit Ummar and one other in Hebron.Israeli forces carry out detention raids across the occupied Palestinian territory on a near-nightly basis, with the UN recording an average of 95 weekly raids in the West Bank in 2016.According to prisoners’ rights group Addameer, 7,000 Palestinians were detained in Israeli prisons as of October 2016.

(Source / 24.01.2017)