Ramallah, March 4 (RHC)-- Israeli military forces have reportedly arrested 16 Palestinians during separate operations across the occupied West Bank.  The Palestinian Prisoners' Club said in a statement that 15 of the arrests were made after Israeli forces broke into dozens of homes in the cities of Nablus, Jenin, Tulkarem, Qalqilya and Hebron.

The statement further noted that Israeli forces also detained a 15-year-old Palestinian girl, identified as Hadiya Ereinat, after she allegedly stabbed an Israeli policeman in the eastern West Bank town of al-Auja.incident.

Meanwhile, Palestinian officials say Israeli forces have closed down the entrances to two villages on the way to Nablus after two Israeli soldiers were injured in an alleged stabbing attack on a guard post at the Har Bracha settlement, located in the northern West Bank, on Wednesday evening.