Israeli forces arrest 20 Palestinians in occupied West Bank
Among them, there are also children and former prisoners, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society NGO. This comes amid near daily raids and mass arrests by the Israeli army across the occupied West Bank since the start of the war on Gaza.
The arrests took place during multiple raids in Ramallah, Hebron, Nablus, Tulkarem, Jenin and Jerusalem, according to the Wafa news agency.
In Tulkarem, Israeli soldiers arrested a young man after they beat him and ransacked his family house, the report said.
Israeli soldiers operate during a raid, at Nour Shams camp, in Tulkarm, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank
Among the more than 8,000 Palestinians arrested, about 3,660 have been placed under the so-called administrative detention, a procedure that allows the Israeli military to hold prisoners indefinitely “on secret information”, which is not accessible to the detainee nor their lawyer, and without charging them or allowing them to stand trial.
Palestinians killed in Jenin raid were ‘left to bleed out’
So far, across the West Bank, there have been four raids on cities and seven on villages and towns. And just in the last 30 minutes, we’ve heard that west of Ramallah, a village is now being raided by Israeli forces.
The raid on Tulkarem ended three or four hours ago. We know that Israeli forces went in and took security cameras off the street in front of Palestinian homes that residents use to monitor the raids.
What we assume is that the Israeli military was looking for a commander of the Palestinian resistance fighters’ battalion in Tulkarem. It was widely reported that Israeli forces killed this commander a few weeks ago during a three-day raid on the camp, but when the dust settled from that raid, it turned out that he was still alive, remaining a thorn no doubt in the side of the Israeli forces.
In a raid on Jenin, young Palestinians were killed. What we know is that they were left to bleed out for about an hour before ambulances were allowed to arrive and attend to them.
This is a violation of international law. Israeli soldiers are obligated by international law to give life-saving aid, even in an instance such as this.
