RAMALLAH, Monday, July 5, 2021 (WAFA) – Israeli forces Monday overnight
detained 10 Palestinians from various parts of the West Bank, according to local and security sources.
In the northern West Bank, Israeli forces re-arrested a former prisoner
after storming his house in Zababdeh town, southeast
of Jenin city, as confirmed by Director of the
Palestine Prisoner’s Society (PPS) Office, Muntaser Sammur.
Sammur added that the soldiers rounded up two
others, including a former prisoner, after breaking into and searching their
houses in Arraba town, southwest of the city.
In Nablus district, Israeli military vehicles stormed Beita town, where soldiers rounded up two others after
ransacking the houses of their families.
In Jerusalem, Israeli police detained a 63-year-old Palestinian from the
vicinity of Bab Hutta,
which leads to Al-Aqsa Mosque.
They re-arrested two others; a former prisoner from Ras
al-Amoud neighborhood and a 14-year-old minor from
al-Issawiya.
In the southern West Bank, soldiers detained a Palestinian after
brutally assaulting him at the entrance of al-Arroub
refugee camp, north of Hebron.
They also rounded up a shepherd while he was grazing his livestock in
at-Tuwani village in the Masafer
Yatta, south of the city, as confirmed by Coordinator
of the Steadfastness Committees, Fuad al-‘Amour.
Israeli
forces frequently raid Palestinian houses almost on a daily basis across the
West Bank on the pretext of searching for “wanted” Palestinians, triggering
clashes with residents.
These
raids, which take place also in areas under the full control of the Palestinian
Authority, are conducted with no need for a search warrant, whenever and
wherever the military chooses in keeping with its sweeping arbitrary powers.
Under Israeli military law army commanders have full executive, legislative and judicial authority over 3 million Palestinians living in the West Bank. Palestinians have no say in how this authority is exercised.
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