NABLUS, February 19, 2025 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation forces Wednesday evening detained five Palestinians and injured several others in Tell town, southwest of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, according to local sources.
They said that a convoy of army vehicles stormed the town, where the heavily armed soldiers fired barrages of live gunfire and tear gas canisters, causing several residents to suffocate from excessive tear gas inhalation and another to sustain shrapnel injury in the foot.
The occupation soldiers rounded up five residents in the course of the raid.
Earlier today, the occupation forces rounded up two Palestinians, including a minor, from the vicinity of the entrance of the Jenin refugee camp as the soldiers prevented displaced families from returning to their houses in the camp.
They also conducted a raid in Idhna town in the Hebron governorate, resulting in the detention of another and seizing his motorbike.
During the period from Tuesday evening to the predawn hours of Wednesday, the occupation forces conducted multiple raids across the occupied West Bank, rounding up at least 30 other Palestinians.
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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