The Israeli occupation forces today detained at least 12 Palestinians in the occupied territories, one of them was severely beaten during the arrest and his family home was ransacked, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) and other sources. It said forces raided the house of Ismail Khatib in Kufr Aqab neighborhood, north of occupied East Jerusalem located beyond the segregation barrier, and arrested him after severely beating him and ransacking his house. Another resident of Kufr Aqab was also detained, according to local sources. In the Bethlehem district, the Israeli military detained five people from the village of Marah Rabah, south of Bethlehem, after raiding and searching their homes. Two of them were 45 years of age and the others were in their 20s. A sixth person was detained following a raid at his home in the town of Beit Fajjar, also in the Bethlehem area. In the city of Hebron, also in the south of the West Bank, soldiers detained three people after raiding and searching their homes. Another person, a 24-year-old former prisoner and a university student, was detained at his house in a Tulkarm neighborhood in the north of the West Bank.
Source: En – Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA