Israeli forces arrest 17 Palestinians in West Bank
 

Jerusalem, June 25 (IANS) Israeli security forces arrested 17 Palestinian suspects, mostly Hamas members, in raids across the West Bank as part of a massive operation to find three missing Israeli teenagers. A military spokesman told Xinhua that among the detainees was Khaled Ibrahim, a senior Hamas activist and a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, who was arrested in Bethlehem. The latest arrests made overnight Tuesday brought the total number of Palestinians apprehended after the start of what the military called Operation Brother's Keeper earlier this month to 371, among whom 282 are Hamas operatives. Also, 57 of the detainees were jailed in Israeli prisons and were freed along with more than 1,000 Palestinian security prisoners in October 2011 in a swap for a Israeli soldier who was held captive by Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

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