Israeli forces stormed the occupied East Jerusalem village of al-Issawiya early on Tuesday, detaining four Palestinians, two of whom were teenagers, the detainees' lawyer told Ma'an.
Muhammad Mahmoud, a lawyer with prisoners' rights group Addameer, identified the four as 14-year-old Yazan Ubeid, 19-year-old Nuiddin Ubeid, Salam Ubeid, 24, and Muhammad Salamah, 22.
He said that Israeli forces had ransacked their homes before detaining them. The day before saw heavy clashes in Issawiya after Israeli forces raided the village's Abu Riyala area.
Separately on Tuesday, Israeli authorities extended the detention of prisoner 36-year-old Ahmad al-Wawi from Silwan in East Jerusalem by a further two years, the Jerusalem branch of the Palestinian Committee for Prisoners' Affairs told Ma'an.
Al-Wawi was initially sentenced to 13 years in prison, but his detention was extended after Israeli authorities accused him of attempting to persuade an Israeli prison guard to help him smuggle a mobile phone into his cell in Israel's Negev jail.
The prisoners' committee said that Israel's central court in Jerusalem had also given prison sentences to three Palestinians from East Jerusalem after they were convicted of establishing an "armed group."
Jalal Kayid Qutub, 23, was sentenced to 13 years, Muhammad Majdi Shaer to four years, and Ahmad Hijazi Bazlamit, 28 to three years, the committee said. They were all detained in 2013.
Israeli forces have conducted hundreds of detention raids in occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank since a wave of unrest swept the occupied Palestinian territory at the beginning of October.
In October alone, just short of 1,000 Palestinians, including 147 children, were detained by Israeli forces, according to Addameer.
Even before the current unrest, Israeli forces had conducted an average of 78 "search and arrest operations" in the occupied West Bank this year, according to UN figures.
