RAMALLAH, November 5, 2024 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation forces Tuesday evening detained two Palestinians from the occupied West Bank governorates of Ramallah and Qalqilya, according to security sources.
They said that the occupation soldiers manning the permanently-staffed An-Nabi Saleh checkpoint, located at the junction between the Halamish colonial settlement, the village of an-Nabi Saleh and Route 465, northwest of Ramallah, stopped and detained an undergraduate student enrolled in Birzeit University.
Meanwhile, the occupation forces manning a checkpoint on the road from Ramallah to Qalqilya stopped and rounded up a woman who works as a psychiatrist with the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) branch in Qalqilya.
In the predawn hours of Tuesday, the occupation forces conducted multiple raids across the occupied West Bank, rounding up at least 15 Palestinians.
Israeli occupation forces frequently raid Palestinian houses almost daily across the West Bank on the pretext of searching for "wanted" Palestinians, triggering clashes with residents.
These raids, which also take place 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.
According to the latest figures from Addameer, the Palestinian Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, there are currently 10,100 Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli prisons and detention centres, including 270 children and 95 female prisoners.
This number includes 3,398 Palestinians placed under “administrative detention”, which allows the detention of Palestinians without charge or trial for renewable intervals ranging between three and six months based on undisclosed evidence that even a detainee’s lawyer is barred from viewing.
The mass arrest of Palestinians is nothing new. According to a 2017 report by Addameer, over the past 50 years, more than 800,000 Palestinians have been imprisoned or detained by Israel, this figure is now believed to be closer to 1 million. This means that about 40% of Palestinian men and boys living under military occupation have been deprived of their freedom. Almost every Palestinian family has suffered the imprisonment of a loved one.
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