A Palestinian lawyer and two teenagers were killed Wednesday, the fifth day of Israeli raids in the West Bank following a spate of deadly attacks in the Jewish state.Israel has poured in additional forces and is reinforcing its wall and fence barrier with the occupied territory after four deadly attacks have claimed 14 lives in Israel, most of them civilians, in the past three weeks.Wednesday's deaths bring to 18 the number of Palestinian fatalities in the ongoing escalation.
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Israel detains at least 15 Palestinians, some from East Jerusalem, says Prisoner Society
Israeli occupation soldiers detaining Palestinians in the occupied territories. (File photo)
RAMALLAH, Monday, January 18, 2021 (WAFA) – The Israeli occupation forces detained this morning at least 15 Palestinians from the occupied territories, some of them from East Jerusalem, according to the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS).
Israeli forces detained four Palestinians from East Jerusalem, two from Isawiyya and two from al-Tur neighborhoods.
Local sources told WAFA that the forces used dogs when searching the homes and detaining the two Palestinians in Isawiyya.
Two others were detained from the town of Abu Dis, just outside East Jerusalem, and one more from the Jerusalem-area village of Al-Zayyem.