Ramallah, February 3 (RHC)-- Israeli military forces have abducted at least 17 Palestinians in separate raids across the Palestinian territories. Local media reported that Israeli troops arrested 13 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and four fishermen off the coast of the besieged Gaza Strip on Wednesday.

Israeli soldiers also demolished over 20 residential buildings in the West Bank city of Hebron and displaced a number of families.

In the Gaza Strip’s southern city of Khan Yunis, Israeli forces broke into homes and violently searched them, causing excessive property damage. In another development, Israeli troops raided an historic museum in the city of Nablus in the northern West Bank and destroyed a number of the artifacts there.

Also on Wednesday, some 50 Israeli settlers, backed by army soldiers, stormed the al-Aqsa Mosque in East Jerusalem.