Israel carried out unprecedented arrest campaign against Palestinians in West Bank

Israeli occupation forces have launched an unprecedented arrest campaign against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank amid the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Thirty Palestinians were detained on Tuesday evening, including children, former prisoners, the Palestinian Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners Club said in a joint statement yesterday.

Since Israel launched its latest military campaign in the occupied West Bank last week, the statement added, it has detained more than 180 Palestinians, while dozens more have been interrogated on the field in towns and refugee camps.

In addition, occupation forces have severely beaten Palestinians, used police dogs to attack them and used civilians as human shields, while vandalising homes and Palestinian property.

Tensions have been running high across the occupied West Bank amid a deadly Israeli offensive that killed nearly 41,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip since 7 October last year.

At least 685 Palestinians have since been killed and nearly 5,700 others have been injured by Israeli occupation army fire in the West Bank since October, according to the Health Ministry.

In a landmark advisory opinion on 19 July, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) declared Israel’s decades-long occupation of Palestinian land “illegal” and demanded the evacuation of all existing settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

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