Ramallah – Ma’an – Israeli soldiers seized seven Palestinians during a series of nighttime raids in the West Bank, the Palestinian Authority (PA) police and security forces reported on Wednesday.

In the village of Birqin, south of Nablus, Israeli troops detained Maher Zuheir Samara, Na’el Sami Samarah, U’beidah Abed-Ar-Rahman Samarah, the police said.

Soldiers also raided a number of houses in the Az-Zahed neighborhood in the old city of Hebron, the PA said. One of the houses belonged to Zakarieyah Yaghmur, the report stated.

South of Hebron, soldiers entered the town of Adh-Dhahariya, where they raided a house owned by Iyad Shehda Al-Jabarin, the police said. No one was reported arrested there.

Soldiers staffing the Al-Hamra military checkpoint, in the northern Jordan Valley, seized four young men after stopping their car.

According to a Palestinian security source, the soldiers stopped a taxi heading to the city of Jericho and ordered the passengers out before searching the vehicle. Remah Jalal Besharat,18, Imad Hassan Besharat, 17, and Ammar Nedal Sawaftah, 20, and Muhammad Khalil Fuqaha, 15, were detained and transferred to an unknown location, the source said.

The Israeli military said it detained two Palestinian men for "suspected terror activities" in the West Bank overnight.