JENIN, June 2, 2025 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation forces on Monday evening detained two Palestinians from Misilyah, south of the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, according to a local source.
Imad Abulrub, Mayor of Misilyah, said that a convoy of army vehicles stormed the village, where the soldiers broke into several houses, conducted thorough searches, and rounded up two brothers.
In the Jerusalem governorate, the occupation forces stormed several houses and stores in Beir Nabala town, and tampered with their contents.
In the predawn and morning hours, the occupying forces conducted a raid in the Dura city, south of Hebron, and ransacked their houses, turning them upside down.
In the Nablus governorate, the sources confirmed a raid in al-Lubban ash-Sharqiyya village, where the soldiers seized two vehicles.
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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