NABLUS (Ma'an) – Israeli forces detained a young man from his home in the Salem village east of Nablus overnight and nine others across the occupied West Bank, witnesses and security officials said Wednesday.

Soldiers aided the house of Abdul Rahman Eshtayeh, 22, a student at Al-Najah University in Nablus, before he was arrested, they said.

An Israeli military spokeswoman said 10 people were detained overnight. The other Palestinians, who were not identified, were transferred to the security forces for questioning.

Among the detainees were one each from Salem and Dharaiya villages, two each from Ramallah and Beita village, and four from Hebron in the southern West Bank, she said.

22 arrested since Monday

Twelve people were arrested in raids on Monday, witnesses and the Israeli army said.

Six people were detained in al-Mughayyir village, northeast Ramallah, while three people were arrested in villages southwest of Ramallah, an Israeli army spokeswoman said.

Three others were detained in villages surrounding Hebron.

One of the men detained in al-Mughayyir had a rifle, the spokeswoman added.

Witnesses said four of the men detained in Ramallah were students at Birzeit university. They were named as Bayan Nasan, Walid Abu Alia, Musa Muhammad, and Khaled Muhammad.

Soldiers detained Jamal Abu Sneihen, 15, Ahmad Masalmeh, 15, Ayesh Ekhlel, 17, and Muhammad Masalmeh, 15, from Hebron, witnesses said.

Around 40 percent of Palestinian men living in the occupied territories have been detained by Israel at some point in their lives, prisoners rights groups say.

Israel has occupied the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem since 1967.