HEBRON, November 8, 2024 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation forces Friday detained eight Palestinians from at-Tabaqa village, southwest of the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, according to WAFA correspondent.
He said that the occupation forces barged their way into the village, deploying in its streets and between the villagers’ houses.
The soldiers muscled inside several houses, detained and escorted eight young men, all identified as members of the Hamdan and Abu Ras families, to the military tower set up at the entrance of the nearby Kharsa village.
The occupation forces daily conduct detention raids against the villagers of at-Tabaqa, escorting detainees to the military tower, savagely beating them up and subjecting them to interrogation for hours.
Earlier today, the occupation forces rounded up five Palestinians from Hebron Governorate.
Security sources identified two of the detainees as residents of the south Hebron City and two others as residents of the Yatta city, and the other one as a resident of Beit Ummar town.
Mohammad Awad, a media activist, said that in the course of the raid in Beit Ummar, the soldiers broke into the family house of a slain Palestinian, locked the entire family in a room for over two hours, at a time when they wreaked havoc inside, vandalized a vehicle and brutally assaulted several young men in the house.
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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