Israel arrests 25 more Palestinians in West Bank raids
RAMALLAH, Palestine
At least 25 Palestinians were detained in fresh Israeli military raids in the occupied West Bank, according to prisoners’ affairs groups on Wednesday.
Former prisoners were among the detainees in the raids that targeted Hebron, Jenin, Tulkarem, and Ramallah, the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner Society said in a joint statement.
Israeli soldiers interrogated dozens of Palestinians in several towns during the raids before releasing them, it added.
The raids came as the Israeli army continued a military operation for the second day in a row in the northern city of Jenin, killing at least 10 people and injuring 40 others.
The new arrests brought the number of Palestinians detained by the Israeli army in the West Bank since October 2023 to over 14,300, including those who were released after being arrested, according to Palestinian figures.
The figure does not include those arrested from the Gaza Strip whose numbers are estimated to be in the thousands.
Over the past few years, the Israeli military has conducted regular raids in the West Bank, which have escalated with the beginning of the war on Gaza on Oct. 7, 2023. Palestinians have also been violently attacked by illegal Israeli settlers.
At least 871 Palestinians have since been killed and over 6,700 others injured by Israeli army fire in the occupied territory, according to the Health Ministry.
In July 2024, the International Court of Justice declared Israel’s decades-long occupation of Palestinian land illegal and demanded the evacuation of all existing settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
* Writing by Ahmed Asmar.
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