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Tuesday 04 Aug 2015 - 13:10 Makkah mean time-19-10-1436
Ramallah, (IINA) - Israeli soldiers on Tuesday arrested 15 Palestinians from various West Bank cities and two Palestinian children aged 12 and 14 from the neighborhood of Silwan on Sunday afternoon, according to news agencies.
Palestinian Interior Ministry said in a statement that Israeli soldiers stormed the West Bank cities of Hebron, Nablus, Ramallah and Bethlehem and arrested the Palestinians.
Also, the Israeli police detained two Palestinian children from the neighborhood of Silwan in occupied East Jerusalem on Sunday afternoon.
The Wadi Hilweh Information Center said that Israeli police detained 12-year-old Mohammad Sami Odeh for allegedly throwing stones at Israeli soldiers.
The center said he was detained while he was riding his bike in Silwan and was taken to Salah al-Deen street police station.
The center said that Israeli police also detained Mohammad Haymouni, 14, from Silwan, without providing further details.
In July, Human Rights Watch accused Israel of "abusive arrests" of Palestinian children as young as 11 and of using threats to force them to sign confessions.
Another international rights group Defense for Children International said last month that violence by Israeli forces against Palestinian child detainees has seen a rise in the first six months of this year.
According to the PLO, Israel detained 1,266 Palestinian children below the age of 15 in the occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank in 2014, and over 10,000 Palestinian children have been detained by Israeli forces since 2000.
It is worth mentioning that the Israeli army launches arrest campaigns on a daily basis against dozens of Palestinians in various cities and villages of the West Bank under various pretexts.
SM/IINA
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