This article was originally published by Maan News and is republished with permission.

Israeli forces arrested 12 Palestinians from the occupied West Bank on Thursday at dawn, according to Israeli sources.

The Israeli radio reported that the arrests took place in the West Bank cities of Ramallah, Nablus, Bethlehem and Hebron. The arrested men belonged to the Hamas and Islamic Jihad movements, the sources said.

Our correspondent in Bethlehem reported that the Israeli forces arrested Anwar Al-'Assa, an activist in the Islamic Jihad movement who has been persecuted for 5 years, after they surrounded a residential building in Al-Khader, a village south of the city.

Near Hebron, in the south of the occupied West Bank, the Israeli forces arrested the teacher Amani Salamah 'Othman Al-Darabee', 24, after storming her house in the Wad Al-Hamam area in Dura village, located south west of Hebron.

The teacher's mother told our Hebron correspondent: "We woke up to the sound of stones being thrown and glass breaking in our house, and the shouting of the occupation's soldiers. When we turned on the lights, they threw two sound bombs at us and then made us come out of the house. They broke the furniture of the house and after one and a half hours of searching, they tied up Amani and took her away."

The Israeli forces also broke into Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank, on Thursday at dawn, and arrested two men.

Our Nablus correspondent reported quoting security sources that some 15 Israeli vehicles broke into the city of Nablus and Balata refugee camp from several directions amid intense gunfire aimed at residential houses. The solders then arrested Mahmoud Saleh Abu Leil, 17, and Khalid Z'eter, 50 in Balata camp. The Israeli military gunfire and grenades led to the house of a camp resident, Mahmoud Maraheel, to catch fire.

The Israeli military forces also arrested five young Palestinian men from the village of Nazlat 'Isa, and the town of Seida, both in the northern West Bank, north of Tulkarem.

Our Tulkarem correspondent quoted Palestinian security sources saying that Israeli forces invaded the village of Nazlat 'Isa, and broke into several homes, before they arrested 'Umran Hassan, Jawad Sulaiman, Mustafa Al-Far and Khalid At-Tahir, all aged 18.

Israeli troops also arrested Izziddin Mir'i, 21, from the town of Seida, while crossing the Beit Iba checkpoint, south of Nablus.

Ma'an's correspondent added that the young men are accused of throwing Molotov cocktails at the separation wall between the villages of Baqa Al-Gharbiya and Nazlat 'Isa during the recent Israeli incursion.

The Israeli forces also broke into the village of Qabatiya, south of Jenin in the northern West Bank, on Thursday at dawn and stormed several houses before turning them into military barracks.

Our Jenin correspondent reported quoting eyewitnesses that nearly 20 Israeli military vehicles broke into the village from all sides, before concentrating on the western district. He added that the Israeli forces forced the inhabitants to evacuate their homes and questioned many of them. They forces then withdrew without arrests.

An eyewitness also reported that an Israeli special force broke into Qabatiya village in civilian cars bearing Palestinian number plates.