The Israeli army arrested 33 Palestinians, including two journalists, two minors and former prisoners, during wide-scale raids across the occupied West Bank on Thursday, according to the Palestinian Prisoners Media Office.
In a statement, the non-governmental group said Israeli occupation forces raided dozens of homes and searched them, damaging the contents of some properties during the campaign, which was concentrated in the provinces of Nablus, Bethlehem, Hebron, Jenin, Tubas and Tulkarem.
The group said 17 Palestinians were arrested in Nablus, seven in Bethlehem, three in Al-Khalil (Hebron), one in Jenin, two in Tubas and three in Tulkarem.
Israeli occupation forces detain two Palestinian young men after raiding a building and vandalizing its contents in Beitunia, west of Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank. pic.twitter.com/8y53N88ax2
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It identified two journalists among those arrested as Sabri Mousa Jibril and Muath Ammarna, both from Bethlehem.
In Jenin, an Israeli special forces unit infiltrated the area around the Interior Ministry roundabout and arrested a former prisoner, according to the group.
The arrests also included minors and other former prisoners, including one who had been released just a few days earlier, it added.
The group said the escalation in arrests, home raids and property damage, along with the targeting of journalists, children and former prisoners, was part of an “ongoing policy of intimidation and arrests against Palestinians.”
It added that arrest campaigns have continued across the occupied West Bank amid an ongoing Israeli escalation since the outbreak of the genocidal war in the Gaza Strip on Oct. 7, 2023.
Since then, ‘Israel’ has intensified raids and arrests in the West Bank, alongside an increase in attacks by Israeli settlers and demolitions of Palestinian homes and other structures.
Palestinians inspect the rubble after Israeli bulldozers demolished 10 homes in the West Bank village of Khirbet al-Fakhit, reportedly for being built without permits.
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According to an AFP tally based on data from the Palestinian health ministry, Israeli forces or settlers have… pic.twitter.com/muhacYZ7IG
According to the Palestinian Prisoners Society, more than 9,400 Palestinians are held in Israeli prisons, including 370 children and 92 women, amid reports by rights groups that some prisoners have been subjected to torture and medical neglect.
Source: Agencies