RAMALLAH — Israeli forces detained at least eight Palestinians across the occupied West Bank, Monday.

Palestine Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said that Israeli forces detained two Palestinians in the central West Bank district of Ramallah. They were identified as Mounir Abed Al-Jalil Al-Abed and Abed Muhammad Mansour Al-Barghouthi.

In the northern West Bank district of Jenin, four Palestinians were detained. They were identified them as Muhammad Adnan Nazzal, Ibrahim Zakarneh, Amar Suleiman Al-Saadi, and Hazzem Mazen Attari.

In the northern West Bank district of Nablus, one Palestinian was detained. In Tubas, another Palestinian was detained by Israeli forces. He was identified him as Adham Zayed al-Masri.

According to prisoners rights group Addameer, there are 5,450 Palestinian prisoners being held in Israeli prisons, including 215 minors, 43 of whom under 16 years old.

In Gaza City, 19 Palestinians and one Israeli soldier were wounded during clashes on Sunday, the Israeli army and Palestinian medical sources said.

“IDF (Israel Defense Forces) soldier injured when an explosive device was thrown during Gaza riots on Israel’s border fence,” the army said on Twitter.

It added that Israeli tanks struck “two Hamas military posts in Gaza in response to the explosive device”.

In Gaza, the health ministry of the Islamist Hamas movement that runs the enclave said 19 Palestinians were wounded by live ammunition during the clashes.

Palestinians have for nearly a year gathered at least weekly in various spots along the Gaza border for often violent protests.

They want to be able to return to the homes their families fled from in the war surrounding Israel’s creation in 1948, and are calling for an end to the Jewish state’s blockade of Gaza.

Meanwhile, Gaza’s Islamist rulers Hamas took control of the Palestinian side of the enclave’s main goods crossing with Israel, the strip’s interior ministry and an official news agency said.

Hamas seized the Gaza Strip in 2007 in a near civil war with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party.

But it agreed to hand control of the crossings to the Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority in 2017, as part of a since-failed reconciliation attempt between the two parties.

The PA administration at the goods crossing said Sunday that Hamas had “expelled (its) employees and banned them from entering the crossing”, the official news agency Wafa reported.

Known to Israelis as Kerem Shalom and to Palestinians as the Kerem Abu Salem, the crossing in the south of poverty-hit enclave has been a lifeline for Gazans, who have lived under a crippling Israeli blockade for more than a decade. — Agencies