Arrest of 40 Palestinians in the West Bank

Israeli forces arrested at least 40 Palestinians at dawn on Tuesday during a widespread campaign of raids and searches carried out in several governorates of the occupied West Bank, which included searching homes and tampering with their contents.

The "Prisoners' Media" office (non-governmental), in a statement, said that the Israeli army launched a widespread arrest campaign at dawn on Tuesday in cities and towns of the West Bank.

It reported that the Israeli army arrested 9 Palestinians from the northern West Bank, including 8 from Tulkarm governorate, and one from Qalqilya city.

The Israeli army also arrested 31 Palestinians from southern West Bank governorates, including 22 from Dura town south of Hebron, and 9 from Tuqu' town south of Bethlehem, according to the same source.

It added that the escalation of arrest campaigns carried out by occupation forces in various areas of the West Bank, through raiding homes, searching them, and assaulting citizens, comes within the framework of a systematic repressive policy that targets Palestinians daily.

The "Prisoners' Media" office held Israel fully responsible for the safety of the detainees, calling on human rights and humanitarian institutions to monitor their conditions and intervene urgently to stop the ongoing violations against them.

Israeli forces usually raid cities and towns in the West Bank and carry out arrest campaigns against Palestinians on the pretext that they are "security wanted".

Concurrently with the genocide war launched by Israel on Gaza on October 8, 2023, which lasted two years, the Israeli army and settlers escalated their attacks in the West Bank, resulting in the killing of 1,102 Palestinians, injuring about 11,000, in addition to arresting more than 21,000.

Meanwhile, Israel's genocide war on the Gaza Strip has left about 71,000 Palestinian dead and more than 171,000 injured, mostly children and women, alongside massive destruction, with UN estimates indicating that the cost of reconstruction could reach about $70 billion.