The Israeli army launched a massive arrest campaign from Sunday evening until Monday morning in Occupied West BankIt targeted at least 50 Palestinians, including children and former prisoners. The arrests were concentrated in my governorate fetal andBethlehemWhile the rest of the operations included the areas of Jerusalem, Ramallah, Nablus, Salfit, and Jericho.
This campaign comes within a large series of arrests since the beginning of the Israeli war of genocide against Gaza StripThe number of Palestinian detainees since October 7, 2023 has reached more than 11,300 people, according to a report issued by the Commission for Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club.
The joint statement of the two organizations stated that the arrests were accompanied by raids, destruction of homes, and vandalism of citizens’ property, in addition to threats to the detainees and their families. Two journalists who were arrested during the operation were also released after field investigation.
In another statement, the statement indicated that the number of detained women reached more than 425, including 27 administrative detainees, in addition to 745 children and 112 journalists, of whom 59 are still in detention, including 6 female journalists and 22 journalists from Gaza.
The statement also stated that the occupation issued 9,392 administrative detention orders (without charge), including orders against children and women. While the number of martyrs imprisoned since the start of the Israeli aggression reached 41 prisoners, including 39 bodies still held by the occupation.
New Israeli attacks
In conjunction with these arrests, Israeli attacks continued in the West Bank, where two Palestinian young men and children were martyred and 4 others were injured by bullets from the occupation forces during the storming of the city of Jenin and its camp.
In turn, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society reported the death of a Palestinian prisoner after being hit by occupation bullets in the Sibat neighborhood. Violent confrontations also broke out in several areas of Jenin, with deliberate shooting directed at journalists who were covering the events.
The special forces of the Israeli occupation (Musta’rab units) had infiltrated the outskirts of Jenin camp, and besieged a house there, before sending reinforcements, accompanied by a military bulldozer, into the city. The occupation forces opened fire directly and deliberately towards a group of journalists while they were covering the aggression in central Jenin, while sounds of explosions were heard in the camp, amid intense flight of occupation drones in the sky of the city and its camp.
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