Israeli forces detain 10 Palestinians in West Bank raid
Israeli forces arrested 10 Palestinians during their raid on al-Fawwar camp in the Hebron Governorate in southern occupied West Bank. The troops stormed the camp using sound bombs and tear gas, detaining 10 residents after breaking into their homes.
Sources said that Israeli forces surrounded the camp, closed its entrances and prevented anyone from entering or exiting the area.
Israeli raid on refugee camp in Hebron part of a ‘silent war’ on West Bank
This is one of at least a dozen Israeli raids into various areas across the occupied West Bank. Fawwar refugee camp in Hebron is a small camp with around 8,000 people. During the raid, Israeli forces rounded up men and youth and interrogated them before they took around 10 of them away to Israeli detention camps.
But this tactic of rounding up all the men, considering them, just by virtue of being male, to be a suspect, and subjecting them to interrogation, sometimes for hours, has become a trend that we increasingly see in the occupied West Bank.
The raids come in light of Israel’s legislation banning UNRWA. We saw an earlier raid two days ago in the Nur Shams refugee camp in Tulkarem, where Israeli forces damaged the UNRWA office, rendering it unusable.
This is just part of the overall trend of what the UN is calling a “silent war” in the occupied West Bank.
At least 46 Palestinians killed in West Bank last month
Palestine Information Center says that at least 46 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces and settlers across the occupied West Bank last month.
