More Palestinians detained by Israel in W. Bank


The Israeli army detained 12 Palestinians in different parts of the occupied West Bank in the early hours of Tuesday.According to the army's Twitter account, the twelve Palestinians were "wanted" by the Israeli authorities and were referred to interrogation.The army gave no further details.Israel has staged a massive campaign of detentions across the West Bank since the kidnapping and the subsequent killing of three Jewish teens in mid-June.Hundreds of Palestinians, including several Hamas members, former ministers and lawmakers, have since been detained.Some 5200 Palestinians continue to languish in Israeli jails, according to estimates by the Palestinian Prisoners' Society.