West Bank, ALRAY - The Israeli occupation army detained early Sunday eight Palestinian citizens after raiding several towns and villages across the occupied West Bank.

Local sources reported that Israeli occupation forces detained Hamada Hassan, 16, Ali Thawabteh, Wadih el-Sheikh, and Yousef Thawabteh, all 15, after storming and ransacking their homes in Beit Fajjar in the south of Bethlehem.

The Israeli occupation military detained Qutaiba al-Biyari and Ahmad Salah, both 20, at a military checkpoint set up at the entrance to the village of Ein Yabrud northeast of Ramallah.

Israeli occupation troops, meanwhile, detained Ahmad Abu al-Rub, from Qabatiya town in southern Jenin, at a military checkpoint near the village of Yabad and Yazan Mahmoud during a separate raid on Issawiya town northeast of occupied Jerusalem.