The Hebrew radio reported that 18 wanted Palestinians were taken to interrogation centers after a wide military operation in the West Bank today.
Palestinian locals in Barqa village near Nablus said that a large number of Israeli troops stormed homes in the village and kidnapped 15 young men.
In another context, specialist in prisoners' affairs Abdulnasser Farwana stated that 303 Palestinians are the number of detainees who have been in Israeli jails since the period before the Oslo agreement and the establishment of the Palestinian authority in May 1994.
These prisoners are known as veterans because they spent more than 17 years in Israeli jails, and according to Farwana they are from different occupied Palestinian areas, including Gaza and the 1948 occupied lands.
He noted that Israel insists on excluding these long time prisoners from any swap deal with the Palestinians, especially the detainees from the 1948 occupied lands at the pretext they are Israeli citizens.
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