PPS: "Israeli Soldiers Abduct Thirty-Two Palestinians, Including Children, In The West Bank"
The Palestinian Prisoners' Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers abducted, since Wednesday evening until morning hours Thursday, thirty-two Palestinians, including children, between the ages of 11 and 15, and a female legislator, in different parts of the occupied West Bank.
The Hebron office of the PPS in the southern part of the West Bank, has reported that the soldiers invaded and ransacked many homes in the district, and abducted eight Palestinians, including a female legislator.
It identified the abducted Palestinians as legislator Samira Halayqa, Mo'tasem Farouq Masalma, Mahmoud Raed Masalma, Rami Edrees, Khaled Awad, Tareq Ersheidat, in addition to two siblings, Majed and Morsi al-'Ajlouni.
The soldiers also invaded and searched homes in the northern West Bank district of Tulkarem, and abducted three Palestinians, identified as Mahmoud Hussein Abu Hamza, 20, Mothanna Abdul-Rahim Rabea', 13, and Issa Omar Odah, 24.
In Nablus, also in the northern part of the West Bank, the soldiers searched homes and abducted three Palestinians, identified as Jihad Nashata, Assef Tayyim and Suleiman 'Oweiss.
Israeli Soldiers Abduct Seven Palestinians In Qalqilia, Tulkarem, Nablus And Salfit
In occupied Jerusalem, the soldiers stormed and ransacked dozens of homes, including in Qalandia refugee camp, interrogated many Palestinians, and abducted nine, including children, between the ages of eleven and fifteen.
They have been identified as Mohammad 'Alqam, Jawad Abu Sneina, and five children, ages 11-15, identified as Ahmad Yousef 'Obeid, Mohammad Mustafa, Malek al-Qaisi, Rami al-Joulani and Husam Zaghal.
Also in Jerusalem, soldiers and personnel of the tax department, invaded many stores and homes, in Salaheddin Street and in Silwan town, and abducted two Palestinian shop owners, forcing many others to shut their stores down.
The two have been identified as Jawad Abu Sneina, who was taken prisoner near the al-Aqsa mosque, and Waseem Abu Bader, in the al-'Abbasiyya neighborhood, in Silwan town.
In addition, the soldiers attacked several schoolchildren in Wadi Hilweh neighborhood in Silwan, allegedly after "throwing rocks" at a colonialist outpost.
The soldiers also abducted Ahmad Hasan Mteir, and Mohammad Hasan al-Lowzi, from Qalandia refugee camp, north of Jerusalem.
In Ramallah, in central West Bank, the soldiers abducted Dia' Rezeq Hmeidat and Hazem Mahmoud Hannoun.
In Qalqilia, in the northern part of the West Bank, the soldiers and abducted three Palestinians, identified as Mahmoud Kayed Abu Adwan, Ibrahim Talal Shreim and Nidal Ahmad Hussein.
In Salfit district, the soldiers abducted one Palestinian, identified as Emad Raja 'Ayyash, after breaking into his home and searching it.
Another Palestinian, identified as Mohammad Mahmoud Abu Shouka, from Gaza, was abducted at the Container military roadblock, near Bethlehem.
Child among 6 Palestinians arrested during Ofer clashes
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) arrested Tuesday afternoon six Palestinians including a child when clashes broke out near Ofer prison in Ramallah.
Heavy firing of teargas bombs was monitored during the clashes, leaving a number of protesters suffering breathing problems.
Journalists have been also attacked by IOF while covering the events.
The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) pointed out that five Palestinian youths and a 13-year-old child were detained and taken to a nearly investigation center.
The clashes erupted following a demonstration organized by the students of Birzeit University protesting the IOF assassination of Basel al-Araj in Ramallah on Monday.
The protesters chanted slogans demanding an end to Israeli occupation and security coordination between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
Earlier Monday, Basel al-Araj was fatally gunned down by IOF at his family home in the central West Bank province of Ramallah.
Palestinian injured child remained handcuffed in Israeli hospital
Palestinian child, shot by Israeli forces with a rubber-coated steel bullet in his left eye during a violent raid into Shufat camp in occupied Jerusalem, has been kept chained to an iron bed at Israel's Hadassah Medical Center.
Physicians for Human Rights strongly condemned Israeli authorities for keeping a 14-year-old boy held in Israeli custody while receiving medical treatment, considering the act as a flagrant violation to medical ethics.
Haaretz Hebrew newspaper said that the child is scheduled to be released today to house arrest.
The child was shot and injured in his left eye last week with a rubber-coated steel bullet as Israeli forces accused the boy of throwing stones at Israeli military vehicles during their violent raid into Shufat camp.
The bullet ripped through his left eye and has caused internal bleeding.
The child was taken in an ambulance heading to Makassed Hospital before being stopped by Israeli police forces at a military checkpoint erected at the entrance to the camp.
The forces allowed the ambulance to pass after holding it for more than half an hour, Physicians for Human Rights revealed.
The Israeli force insisted on following the ambulance with a military vehicle and demanded the driver to go to Hadassah hospital.
At the hospital, the child was subjected to tough investigation without the presence of his parents.
NGOs urge UN to blacklist Israel over violations against children
A consortium of human rights groups has urged UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres to add Israel and its army to a blacklist of entities and countries that have committed grave violations against children.
"Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict," a global network of NGOs that strives to end violations against children in armed conflicts, released its annual report ahead of the UN's release of its annual report on children and armed conflicts.
"The new secretary-general has an opportunity to send a clear message to all member states that a party to conflict is listed for one reason alone, a pattern of documented, United Nations-verified evidence of grave violations against children," Dragica Mikavica, advocacy officer for the organization, said in the report.
The Watchlist, which has recommended the Israeli army for blacklisting since 2005, focused on Israel's 2014 military aggression against Gaza in its report, stressing that Israel's "attacks in Gaza have not ceased."
"In his 2016 annual report on children and armed conflict covering the period of January 1 to December 31, 2015, the secretary-general reported that 27 Palestinian children [23 boys and 4 girls] were killed in the West Bank, almost double the number killed in 2014," the report noted.
It added that "the number of injuries to Palestinian children also increased, mostly due to clashes with Israeli forces and military-led operations".
In 2015, Israel escaped blacklisting by the UN after lobbying by the US and Israel.
Detainees' Committee Denounces Israeli Abduction Of Wounded, Disabled, Child In Bethlehem
The Palestinian Detainees and Ex-Detainees Committee issued a statement strongly denouncing the Israeli army's abduction of a wounded Palestinian child, who previously lost one of his legs after the soldiers shot him to an expanding bullet.
The committee stated that the child, Issa Adnan Abdul-Mo'ty, 14, from Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, was abducted by the soldiers on Wednesday.
On September 19, 2015, the child was shot by the soldiers with an internationally-banned expanding bullet in his leg, prior to his abduction, and his wounded leg was later amputated at an Israeli hospital.
After his leg was amputated following several surgeries that were unable to save it, the child was released, on September 29, 2015, on a 7000 Israeli Shekels bail.
The Committee stated that the re-arrest of the wounded child "is another crime added to the Israeli occupation's dark history of violence and abuse against the Palestinian children," and called for an immediate an international intervention to end the escalating violations.
"This detained child is a victim of Israel's racist policies and decisions to use live fire against Palestinian children," the Committee added, "Israel is not only using live and sniper fire, including expanding bullets against the children, it also insists on continuing the crime by abducting and imprisoning them."
20 West Bank citizens kidnapped in overnight IOF campaigns
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The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) last night and at dawn Thursday kidnapped 20 Palestinians from different areas of the West Bank.
In al-Khalil, Israeli soldiers stormed at an early hour in the morning Beit Awa town in the west and kidnapped three young men from their homes.
The detainees were identified as Omar Masalmeh, Ghazi Farouk and Ali as-Suwaiti.
Another military force stormed last night ad-Dhahiriya town south of al-Khalil, raided homes and clashed with local young men near the house of martyr Sa'ad Qaisiya, who carried out a stabbing attack in the city.
In Jenin, several Palestinian citizens suffered from inhaling tear gas during clashes with Israeli soldiers in Zabuba town. Soldiers were also deployed near Rummanah town.
Israeli troops also rounded up young men at dawn raids on homes in Beita and Awarta town, southeast of Nablus province.
Local sources in Awarta town told the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) that five citizens were kidnapped from their homes and taken to Huwara military base before being released later.
Another IOF campaign was carried out in Beita town, where a school teacher called Mohamed Mu'alla was taken prisoner following a raid on his home.
The IOF also stormed Far'a refugee camp, northeast of Nablus, clashed with local residents and kidnapped a young man.
Locals from the camp reported hearing explosions believed to have resulted from throwing homemade bombs at soldiers.
According to a press release issued by the Israeli army, 20 Palestinians labeled as wanted were arrested during overnight campaigns in the West Bank.
The army said in its statement that its forces raided a Palestinian printing press in ad-Deheisheh refugee camp in Bethlehem, confiscated its equipment and shut it down, claiming it was used to print inflammatory materials.
During the IOF campaign in the camp, the soldiers clashed with local young men and intensively fired tear gas grenades at them and nearby homes.
Seven young men were arrested and two soldiers suffered injuries in Molotov cocktail attacks during the events.
A 12-year-old child called Hammam Radi was reportedly kidnapped from the camp. It is still unclear if he was among the seven young men arrested during the violent events.
In Occupied Jerusalem, violent skirmishes broke out last night between Israeli policemen and young men in Kafr Aqab town, with no reported arrests.
Israeli border soldiers also stormed Hizma town, east of Jerusalem, and kidnapped a young man from his home.
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