Israeli forces have carried out a wave of overnight raids and arrests in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian Wafa news agency.

Four people were arrested from the village of Kafr ad-Dik, west of Salfit while six people were arrested from Nablus and the nearby Balata camp, where they also “severely beat” a resident.

Three young men from the Tulkarem refugee camp were arrested, as weretwo university students from Ramallah and the nearby village of Beitello. One person from the town of Tuqu, southeast of Bethlehem, was also arrested.

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