Israeli forces detained at least 70 Palestinians in raids across the occupied West Bank on Saturday, while eight Palestinians were injured in a separate attack by Israeli settlers, according to Palestinian media and the Palestinian Red Crescent Society.
The official Voice of Palestine radio reported that Israeli forces detained more than 40 young Palestinian men during an ongoing raid in the town of Tell, west of Nablus in the northern West Bank.
The broadcaster said Israeli troops seized a residential home and turned it into a temporary field interrogation center.
It added that Israeli forces were conducting extensive raids on homes throughout the town while surrounding it from all directions.
On Friday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz ordered a "wide-scale military operation" in Palestinian villages across the West Bank following an attack near the illegal Havat Gilad settlement that killed two Israeli soldiers and wounded three others.
