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Israeli forces continued to detain a pregnant Palestinian woman on Saturday, two days after she was arrested from her home, an advocacy group said. Baseel Khaled Abu Hameed, 28, from the city of Yatta near Hebron in the occupied West Bank, was detained in a bid to pressure her husband to come forward, as reported by The New Arab’s Arabic edition al-Araby al-Jadeed. The Palestinian Prisoners’ Club (PPC) advocacy group said in a statement on Saturday that Israeli authorities were keeping Abu Hameed – who was four months pregnant – despite the surrender of her husband Bakr Nabeel Abu Rajab, a Pal…

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