An-Najah News - Israeli forces quelled a rally marking the sixteenth anniversary of late President Yasser Arafat in Tuqu‘ town, east of Bethlehem.

Tuqu‘ Mayor Tayseer Aby Mifreh said that the students of the local boy's school organized a rally to commemorate the 16th anniversary of the death of Arafat, but the rally was cracked down, causing a number of students to suffer from tear-gas suffocation.

All students and teachers were evacuated from the school campus, which was surrounded by Israeli soldiers.

Gatherings commemorating the sixteenth anniversary of Arafat’s death to take place today across various parts of the occupied territories.

An-Najah News - According to the Palestinian Prisoner Society Israeli occupation forces today detained 12 Palestinians, including a woman journalist.

The journalist Bushra Tawil was detained at a flying military checkpoint near the illegal settlement of Yitzhar.
 Tawil, a former prisoner who was released only three months ago from Israeli jails.

Tawil,  was in a car with relatives and children when the car she was in was stopped at the military checkpoint and held for several hours.

In Hebron in the south of the West Bank, the Israeli occupation army detained four Palestinians, including two brothers, 28 and 29 years old, from al-Zughayar family.