Israeli forces detained seven Palestinians overnight Wednesday while violently assaulting several others across the occupied West Bank.
In the northern West Bank city of Nablus, 47-year-old Fawwaz Hasan Miladi was detained after Israeli troops raided his home in the village of Einabus south of the city, Palestinian security sources told Ma'an.
Separately, Israeli soldiers violently assaulted 25-year-old Muhammad Ghassan Ziyada from the nearby village of Madama. Ziyada was evacuated to Rafidia Hospital after a number of Israeli soldiers attacked him, sources added.
In the southern West Bank, Israeli troops detained two teenage Palestinians from the town of Beit Ummar north of Hebron.
Spokesman of a local resistance committee Muhammad Ayad Awad identified the detainees as Muhammad Mihyar Iseid Awad and Arwad Muhammad Awad Badran, both 18 years of age.
Four young Palestinian men were hit with rubber-coated steel bullets and several others suffered from tear gas inhalation during clashes that erupted with Israeli forces during the raid in Beit Ummar, Awad said, adding that the troops stormed several neighborhoods in the town.
Meanwhile in the Jenin area, the Palestinian Prisoners' Society said that Israeli forces detained Marcel Khalil Kabha,16, Ayham Muhammad Kabha, 20, and Fayez Muhammad Kabha, 24, from Tura early Thursday morning.
Israeli forces also detained Abdullah Nayef Maraba, 22, from Beit Lid village near Jenin, security sources told Ma'an.
Muhammad Abudl-Qadu Maraba and Bashar Hisham Maraba from the nearby village of Fahma were violently assaulted and briefly detained by Israeli soldiers.
An Israeli army spokesperson told Ma'an that seven Palestinians had been detained overnight Wednesday for "illegal activity" but was unable to elaborate on details of such activity.
Israeli forces have carried out a weekly average of 78 search and arrest raids in occupied Palestinian territory since the start of 2015 according to documentation by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
Over 5,500 Palestinians are currently held in Israeli prisons under what critics say is arbitrary detention that amounts to collective punishment.
