Israeli forces abduct Palestinian student, 15 others throughout West Bank

Ma'an -- Israeli forces entered a village in the northern West Bank on Thursday and detained a university student who had been released from custody only one year earlier.

Ahmad Mahmud As-Said, 21, of the Deir Istya village northwest of Salfit, served two years in Israeli prison on charges of resisting Israel and was released in the summer of 2009.

Israeli military officials said a total of 16 detentions were carried out in the Nablus, Jenin, Bethlehem, Qalqiliya and Ramallah areas overnight. All of the detainees were taken in for questioning to unknown locations.