RAMALLAH, February 13, 2025 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation forces Thursday detained a Palestinian at a military checkpoint, north of the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, according to local sources.
They said that Israeli soldiers manning the permanently staffed Atara checkpoint rounded up a 24-year-old Ayesha Nasser from Umm Saffa village, west of Ramallah.
The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said that Nasser is a former prisoner who was first arrested while in Jerusalem on April 18, 2023 before being released on bail.
Earlier today, the Israeli special forces abducted a Palestinian from the Ramallah city neighborhood of Ramallah al-Tahta and four others in multiple raids across the Ramallah governorate.
The 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 are conducted without 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 10,000 Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli prisons and detention centers, including 365 child prisoners and 15 female prisoners.
This number includes approximately 3,369 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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