RAMALLAH, May 30, 2025 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation forces on Friday detained at least five Palestinians from various parts of the occupied West Bank, according to local and security sources.
They said that the occupying forces showed up at a house in Deir Ghassana, a town to the northwest of Ramallah, muscled inside, and rounded up two brothers.
In the predawn and morning hours of Friday, the occupation forces re-arrested a former prisoner and ransacked his house in Dhannaba neighborhood, east of Tulkarm.
Meanwhile, the sources confirmed a raid in Hebron City, where the gun-toting soldiers detained a Palestinian and searched several houses, tampering with their contents.
In the meantime, a convoy of army vehicles stormed the Nablus city neighborhood of al-Jabal Ash-Shamali, and rounded up a Palestinian.
Also in the Nablus governorate, the forces conducted separate raids in the Zawata town and al-Lubban ash-Sharqiyya village, ransacking houses and wreaking havoc inside.
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 10,100 Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli prisons and detention centers, including 400 child prisoners and 35 female prisoners.
This number includes approximately 3,577 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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