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The occupation forces arrest 40 citizens from the West Bank

Ramallah – Ma’an – Arrest cases increased after October 7 to more than 8,030 arrests in the West Bank, including Jerusalem, and included all segments of Palestinian society, those whom the occupation kept detaining them, and those who were later released, while the Israeli occupation continues to carry out the crime of enforced disappearance. Against Gaza detainees.

The Prisoners’ Authority and the Prisoners’ Club said that the arrest campaigns reflected a high level of brutality, attacks, violations, and systematic crimes, accompanied by severe beatings, field investigations with dozens of citizens, and the use of citizens as hostages, in addition to the field executions that were carried out against citizens during the arrest campaigns, including brothers. For detainees, they were martyred at the moment their brothers were arrested, and other brutal crimes and violations, and widespread acts of vandalism that affected homes, and the confiscation of possessions, cars, money, gold jewelry, and electronic dev
ices.

It is noteworthy that the Israeli occupation forces launched a massive arrest campaign from yesterday evening until Thursday morning, targeting at least (40) citizens from the West Bank, including three women and former prisoners. The arrests were concentrated in the Jerusalem Governorate, while the rest of the arrests were distributed among the Ramallah and Hebron governorates. Bethlehem, Jenin, Qalqilya, Tubas, and Nablus.

Note that the ongoing and escalating arrest campaigns in an unprecedented manner come within the framework of the comprehensive aggression against our people and the ongoing genocide in Gaza, after October 7, which targeted all groups in an unprecedented manner. It is noteworthy that the data related to arrest cases includes those who were kept in detention by the occupation, or those who were later released.

Source: Maan News Agency