RAMALLAH, Monday, October 16, 2023 (WAFA) – The Israeli occupation forces continued this morning and last night the mass detention of Palestinians in raids across the occupied territories with the rounding up of at least 70 people, including two journalists, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) and various sources.

Local and security sources in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, where most of the arrests in recent days have concentrated, said at least 28 people were detained in raids at their homes in various towns of the governorate.

Five were also detained in Tulkarm governorate, including a 65-year-old man, three in Nablus governorate, seven in the Ramallah governorate, including journalist Mustafa Khawaja who was detained in a raid at his home in Nilin town, west of Ramallah, four others from Qarawat Bani Hassan, near Salfit, 10 in the Bethlehem district, including 36-year-old journalist Muath Amarneh, who lost an eye from an Israeli army bullet while covering confrontations in Bethlehem three years ago and was detained in a raid at his home in Deheisheh refugee camp, three in Jericho where soldiers this morning killed a Palestinian youth during the raid of Aqbat Jabr refugee camp, and five people in occupied East Jerusalem, including two minors, among others.

The PPS said the Israeli occupation forces detained around 540 Palestinians in raids across the occupied West Bank since the start of the Israeli aggression on Gaza on October 7.

M.K.