IOF arrest 11,600+ Palestinians from West Bank since October 2023
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The IOF have detained at least 12 Palestinians on Wednesday during raids in the West Bank.
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IOF raid of the Nur Shams refugee camp in the West Bank city of Tulkarm, on Thursday, Oct. 31, 2024. (AP)
The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners Society announced that at least 12 Palestinians were rounded up and detained during Israeli raids in the occupied West Bank.
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stormed several towns and cities across the West Bank, including occupied al-Quds, Ramallah, al-Khalil, Tulkarm, and Nablus. One of the detainees is a liberated detainee who was released only two days ago, according to the joint statement issued by the Commission and PPS.
Palestinians were also forcefully interrogated in the towns of Burin and Madama in the northern West Bank. Israeli raids were, as usual, accompanied by severe physical and verbal abuse of Palestinians, threats against them and their families, as well as the vandalization of their homes, the joint statement affirmed.
In this context, video footage circulated online showing a Palestinian youth being verbally and physically abused by a gang of Israeli occupation soldiers, in occupied al-Quds.
Israeli soldiers brutally beat a Palestinian youth whilst detaining him in the occupied city of Jerusalem.💔🇵🇸 pic.twitter.com/6VyAOtgdCc
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The IOF have so far detained over 11,600 Palestinians since the beginning of the genocide in Gaza on October 7, 2023, excluding those abducted from Gaza. The number includes the re-arrest of liberated detainees.
IOF escalate administrative detention, issuing 9,500+ orders in Oct.
Last week, the Commission of Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners Society issued a joint statement highlighting a sharp increase in administrative detention orders imposed by the Israeli occupation against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and al-Quds. According to the report, over 9,500 such orders, both new and renewed were issued in October alone.
The report indicated that, as of early October 2024, at least 3,398 Palestinians are currently held under administrative detention, including 30 women and approximately 90 children, among them a 14-year-old boy named Ammar Abdul Kareem. These administrative detainees now constitute about 33% of the total Palestinian prisoner population held by "Israel".
The statement emphasized that this increase in administrative detention is part of a strategy to suppress the social, political, and cultural roles of Palestinian society. Targeted groups include students, journalists, activists, and human rights defenders, with a substantial portion of administrative detainees comprising former prisoners.
Recent practices include returning detainees who have completed their sentences to administrative detention, as well as issuing administrative detention orders for detainees who had been released on bail or under other conditions. The statement criticized Israeli occupation forces' courts for institutionalizing administrative detention, especially under the current government, which it claims has aligned the judicial system with settler interests.
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