The Prisoners’ Affairs Authority and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club announced that the number of Palestinian detainees in the West Bank has risen to 8,800 since October 7, after the Israeli army arrested 26 Palestinians on Monday night.
Anatolia Agency quoted the joint statement as saying that these arrests came in the context of broad campaigns that were mainly focused in the cities of Hebron and Ramallah, where 21 citizens were arrested in Hebron, including former prisoners, while the other 5 were arrested from towns in Ramallah Governorate between Sunday and Monday. .
The statement indicated that the arrests were accompanied by raids and widespread abuse, as detainees were subjected to severe beatings, in addition to vandalism and destruction of their homes.
The statement also added that the occupation forces stormed and searched the home of the family of prisoner Islam Hamed in the town of Silwad.
Islam Hamed was arrested in 2015 and sentenced to 21 years in prison, as part of Israel’s collective punishment policy against prisoners and their families.
In conjunction with the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, the West Bank is witnessing increasing security tensions as a result of continued settler attacks and Israeli incursions into Palestinian cities, towns and camps, which resulted in the killing of 505 Palestinians and the injury of about 5,000 others, according to data from the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
The Israeli war on Gaza resulted in more than 114,000 Palestinian deaths and injuries, most of them children and women, in addition to about 10,000 missing people amid massive destruction and famine that led to the death of children and the elderly.
Despite the issuance of a resolution by the UN Security Council to stop the fighting immediately, and the International Court of Justice demanding that Israel take immediate measures to prevent acts of “genocide” and improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza, Israel continues the war on the Strip.