RAMALLAH, May 19, 2026 (WAFA) – The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said that Israeli occupation forces carried out a wide-scale detention campaign and field interrogations across the West Bank, including Jerusalem, from Monday evening through Tuesday morning, targeting at least 40 Palestinians, including two women, a child, and former detainees.
In a statement issued Tuesday, PPS said the detention campaign and field interrogations were concentrated in the town of Al-Mazra'ah al-Gharbiyah in the Ramallah and al-Bireh governorate, where Israeli forces turned the home of detainee Mohammed Mustafa Shreiteh into a field interrogation center after detaining and interrogating dozens of residents.
The statement noted that the occupation forces detained Abeer Nawa’ja and her 16-year-old daughter, Rima, during a raid on their home in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron. The two are the wife and daughter of detainee Murad al-Nawa’ja, who has been held in Israeli detention for a week.
The occupation forces also conducted extensive searches inside the house, causing material damage, and physically assaulted their son, Nadeem, leaving him with a fracture in his left leg and torn ligaments in his right leg.
The Prisoner’s Society stressed that the occupation continues to escalate detention campaigns and field interrogations at an increasing pace, particularly since the beginning of the genocidal war in October 2023, noting that the number of detention cases in the West Bank has surpassed 23,000 as part of a policy of collective punishment targeting all segments of Palestinian society.
It added that field interrogation has become a systematic policy carried out during raids across various governorates, during which families are forced to leave their homes and are subjected to intimidation, as well as vandalism and the destruction of property, prior to detention operations.
PPS emphasized that these violations are an extension of a longstanding policy pursued by the occupation for decades, targeting the Palestinian presence through repression and control policies, noting that since the start of the genocidal war, there has been an unprecedented escalation in the level and intensity of violations committed against detainees, prisoners, and their families.
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