Last night, the Israeli army arrested at least 15 Palestinians, including children and former prisoners, during its storming of several areas in the occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Club (Ahli) said in a statement, “The Israeli occupation forces arrested at least 15 citizens from the West Bank, from yesterday evening (Saturday) until this morning (Sunday), including children and former prisoners.”
The arrests were distributed among the governorates of Hebron (south), Jenin, Nablus, Salfit, Tulkarm (north), and Ramallah (centre), according to the statement.
The arrests were accompanied by “attacks and threats against detainees and their families, in addition to sabotage and destruction of citizens’ homes,” according to the Prisoner’s Club.
According to the club, “the number of arrests since the start of the ongoing war of extermination and comprehensive aggression against our people has reached more than 11,900 citizens from the West Bank, including Jerusalem (…) without Gaza, whose numbers are estimated in the thousands.”
In parallel with the war of extermination in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army expanded its operations, and settlers escalated their attacks in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, which resulted in a total of 797 people being killed and about 6,600 injured, according to official Palestinian data.
With American support, Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza since October 7, 2023, leaving about 149,000 martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 11,000 missing, amid massive destruction and famine that killed dozens of children and the elderly, in one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the world.