Ramallah, October 8 (RHC)-- In the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society says Israeli forces detained another 30 Palestinians overnight during raids on Hebron, Nablus, Bethlehem and occupied East Jerusalem. The group reports Israel has arrested more than 11,200 Palestinians across the West Bank over the past year. 

On Monday, two West Bank Palestinians were killed in separate Israeli raids.  Twelve-year-old Hatem Ghaith was fatally shot in the abdomen by Israeli forces in a raid on the Qalandiya refugee camp.  And in the city of Dura, Israeli troops fatally assaulted 66-year-old Ziad Abu Hlail as they raided his home to arrest his brother. 

His widow Basma recounted the fatal assault.  Basma Abu Hlail said: “We were asleep at 4 a.m. when the army surrounded the house and arrested my son.  They took him out of the house. His father wanted to run after him, but they didn’t let him.  They pushed the door into him, and he fell and died.  He became a martyr.  We called the ambulance, and it never arrived.”