JENIN, April 10, 2025 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation forces Thursday held several Palestinian civilians near the entrance of the Jenin refugee camp in the northern occupied West Bank, according to WAFA correspondent.
She said that the occupying forces held several civilians, including a husband with his ailing wife, at the Zahrra neighborhood near the camp entrance.
The occupation forces continue to wage aggression on the Jenin city and refugee camp 80 consecutive days, killing 36 Palestinians, injuring dozens, and systematically destroying hundreds of houses and civilian infrastructure, particularly in the camp.
Meanwhile, the occupying forces showed up at a house in the Burqin town, west of Jenin, muscled inside, and detained the wife of a former prisoner as a means to coerce him into turning himself in.
Earlier, the occupation forces detained at least 15 civilians, including a woman and a journalist, from various parts of the occupied West Bank.
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 the 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 9,500 Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli prisons and detention centers, including 350 child prisoners and 21 female prisoners.
This number includes approximately 3,405 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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