This article was originally published by the Ma'an News Agency and is republished with permission.

Israeli soldiers assaulted and detained a young Palestinian at the Huwwara checkpoint south of Nablus on Wednesday night, according to witnesses at the scene.

Several Palestinians told Ma'an that the soldiers first accused the 16-year-old boy, Sa'd Ibrahim Abed Gaghoub, of possessing a knife. They said troops then assaulted the boy, closing the checkpoint for several minutes while processing his arrest.

It was not immediately clear how seriously Gaghoub was injured during the alleged beating. Israeli authorities did not say where he was taken, either.

The boy is from the village of Beita near Nablus, which is in the northern West Bank.