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OCCUPIED JERUSALEM,  Israeli occupation forces (IOF) rounded up 15 Palestinian citizens in the West Bank during their routine daily arrest campaign, Hebrew daily Yediot Arhonot said on its website on Wednesday.

It added that the apprehended individuals were wanted for questioning.

Local sources, however, said that the number of detained citizens was much bigger, noting that the IOF soldiers rounded up 15 minors during a raid in Kufr Hares village, Salfit district, on charges of throwing stones at IOF troops.

The IOF soldiers also raided the districts of Jenin, Nablus, Qalqilia, and Bethlehem and detained civilians, eyewitnesses reported.

Meanwhile, IOF soldiers and policemen sent reinforcements to occupied Jerusalem on Wednesday especially in the Old City to secure a yearly march organized by Jewish settlers to commemorate what they call "reunification of Jerusalem", which was made back in 1967 after the IOF troops occupied the eastern sector of Jerusalem while they had occupied the western sector in 1948.

Jerusalemites fear the outcome of this march as settlers usually wreak havoc in the Palestinian markets, assault the merchants and civilians, break the locks of shops, and write anti-Arab slogans on the walls.

Tens of fanatic Jewish settlers on Tuesday night had stormed Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in occupied Jerusalem under protection of IOF troops.

Locals said that the settlers headed to the Palestinian homes, which were seized from the Kurd, Hanun, and Ghawi families.