TULKARM, February 27, 2026 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation forces on Friday detained seven Palestinians from the northern occupied West Bank governorate of Tulkarm, according to local sources.
They said that Israeli troops rounded up a girl after breaking into her family’s house in the Shweika neighborhood, north of Tulkarm, purportedly for posting “inciting” content on social media.
Earlier today, the occupying forces rounded up six youths and ransacked their families’ houses in Deir al-Ghusun town, north of Tulkarm, wreaking havoc inside.
Meanwhile, the gun-toting soldiers detained a man after intercepting his vehicle in the city of Beit Jala, west of Bethlehem. The detainee was identified as a resident of Bani Naim town, north of Hebron.
In Ramallah governorate, a convoy of army vehicles stormed Kafr Malek village, where the soldiers played Hebrew songs over loudspeakers.
Local sources confirmed similar raids in Az-Zawiya town, west of Salfit, and Kafr Qallil, south of Nablus, where the soldiers broke into several houses, conducted thorough searches, and interrogated occupants.
On Thursday evening, Israeli soldiers manning the A-Shuhada military checkpoint in the Old City of Hebron stopped and rounded up a 15-year-old on his way to his family house in the Rumeida neighborhood.
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 9,300 Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli prisons and detention centers, including 350 child prisoners and 56 female prisoners.
This number includes approximately 3,358 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.
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