Hebron (The Inside Palestine) – Israeli occupation forces on Tuesday detained at least three Palestinian people, including a child, during a raid across the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron.
Local sources reported that the occupation forces stormed a number of neighborhoods in the town, raided and ransacked several homes and detained three people.
The sources added that the three detainees were named as ex-detainee Dyar al-Salibi, 20, Waseem Bahar, 18, and Waseem al-Shaqdam, 14.
They indicated that the several people suffered toxic tear gas suffocation by the Israeli occupation forces during the raid.
Israeli occupation forces routinely carry out arrest raids in the occupied West Bank. Around 40 percent of Palestinian men living in the occupied territories have been detained by ‘Israel’ at some point in their lives.
It is now holding 4,900 Palestinian detainees, including 31 female detainees and around 160 children, in its prisons, according to Palestinian prisoners’ rights groups.
Source: Alray