RAMALLAH, April 28, 2026 (WAFA) – The Palestinian Prisoner's Society (PPS) said that Israeli occupation forces detained and interrogated approximately 140 Palestinians from the West Bank, including Jerusalem, on Monday and Tuesday. Among those detained were a woman, children, and former prisoners.
In a statement, the PPS explained that the detentions took place across most of the West Bank governorates, including Jerusalem, and were concentrated primarily in the towns of al-Ram, Kafr Aqab, al-Dhahiriya, and Qalandiya refugee camp. These areas witnessed extensive raids that lasted for hours, and most of those detained were later released.
The PPS emphasized that field interrogations are the most prominent policy employed by the occupation during raids, as part of a collective punishment campaign targeting all segments of Palestinian society. Thousands of Palestinians have been affected since the beginning of the genocide. The PPS noted that the mistreatment accompanying field interrogations is no less severe than that which accompanies actual detentions.
He pointed to a series of crimes and violations that consistently accompany detention operations, including: severe beatings, organized acts of terrorism against detainees and their families, widespread vandalism and destruction of citizens' homes, confiscation of vehicles, money, and gold jewelry, destruction of infrastructure, demolition of prisoners' families' homes, use of family members as hostages, use of detainees as human shields, extrajudicial killings, and exploitation of detentions as a cover for expanding colonies in the West Bank, with the support of colonists.
The PPS reiterated that the occupation's current crimes are an extension of its decades-long approach to targeting the Palestinian presence and imposing more tools of repression, control, and surveillance. The only change since the beginning of this war of extermination is the intensity of these crimes.
He emphasized that the occupation authorities are continuing their systematic detention operations, which are among the most prominent and historically consistent policies, implemented daily against citizens. The number of detentions in the West Bank since the beginning of this war of extermination has exceeded 23,000.
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