Israeli forces arrest 14 in West Bank

Israeli forces Wednesday arrested 14 Palestinians from the Qalqilya area in the north of the West Bank and the Hebron area in the south, according to local activists. They said forces arrested nine people during a night raid at the Qalqilya area village of Azzoun, including three minors and two in their 40s. Army units raided homes in Azzoun, ransacking them and arrested nine people. In the city of Hebron, soldiers arrested a 20-year-old student studying at the Polytechnic College and two other people, one of them 50 years old. Forces also raided the town of Sair, northeast of Hebron, and arrested one resident after searching several homes in the area. Soldiers also arrested a former prisoner in the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron. Sources said soldiers arrested Jalal Rai, 42, who had spent a total of 12 years in Israeli jails. They said Rai had recently a work accident that caused him a leg fracture, yet the soldiers took him away in spite of his injury.