HEBRON, April 22, 2025 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation forces Tuesday evening detained two Palestinians from the Hebron and Nablus governorates in the occupied West Bank, according to security sources.
They said that the occupation forces rounded up a Palestinian from a store in Hebron City.
Meanwhile, the occupation soldiers manning the Deir Sharaf checkpoint stopped and detained a young man several hours after detaining his brother from the Rafidia area as a means to coerce the former into turning himself in.
Earlier today, the occupation forces rounded up 25 Palestinians in multiple raids across the West Bank, as confirmed by local sources.
They said that the occupying forces ransacked several houses and rounded up six Palestinians from the Jaba‘ town, south of Jenin City, which has been the target of Israeli military aggression for 92 consecutive days.
They showed up at a house in the eastern neighborhood of the city of Jenin, muscled inside, and detained a young man.
In the Hebron governorate, Israeli soldiers detained six Palestinians, including two brothers, from the Deir Samet town, west of Hebron.
The soldiers forcibly entered several houses in the southern area of the city of Hebron and detained four others.
The gun-toting soldiers rounded up five others: two brothers from the Yatta town and three from the Beit Ummar town, northwest of Hebron.
In the Tulkarm governorate, the sources confirmed a similar raid in the Thannaba neighborhood, where the soldiers forcibly entered many houses, turned them topsy-turvy, and detained three Palestinians.
The heavily armed soldiers rearrested a former prisoner after breaking into his house in the vicinity of the Tulkarm refugee camp.
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 9,900 Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli prisons and detention centers, including 400 child prisoners, 27 female prisoners, and five members of the Palestinian Legislative Council.
This number includes approximately 3,498 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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