IOF arrest 35 Palestinians in West Bank, Al-Quds, including 3 women
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The IOF have carried out a wide-ranging campaign of detention, with widespread incursions, harassment, brutal beatings, and threats against detainees and their families.
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Israeli soldiers at an entrance to the West Bank on June 21, 2023 (AP)
The Palestinian Prisoners Information Office reported that Israeli occupation forces have arrested 35 Palestinians in the West Bank and al-Quds, including 3 women, in the past few hours.
The arrests were concentrated in al-Khalil and occupied al-Quds, in addition to Beit Lahm, Ramallah, Tulkarm, Areeha, and Tubas.
With the arrest of 35 Palestinians today, the total number of detentions since Operation Al-Aqsa Flood has risen to approximately 4,575 cases.
It is worth noting that the IOF carried out a mass detention campaign, with widespread incursions, harassment, brutal beatings, and threats against detainees and their families, along with field investigation operations, particularly in the town of Abwein in Ramallah, accompanied by extensive destruction and ransacking of civilians' homes.
This morning, the Palestinian Red Crescent announced the injury of a young man by Israeli occupation gunfire during a raid on the village of Baqa al-Hatab east of the city of Qalqilya, in the northern West Bank.
In a related context, the Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs Commission published a report today, revealing a brutal assault on Palestinian prisoner Ammar Murad, 42 years old, a resident of Ramallah holding Jordanian nationality, at the hands of the occupation forces in "Megiddo" prison after being transferred from "Ofer" Prison.
IOF killed 505 Palestinians in West Bank since the beginning of 2023
As Operation Al-Aqsa Flood unfolds, the Israeli occupation has intensified its aggression on West Bank cities, engaging in widespread detention campaigns, and carrying out killings, amid a rise in settlers' violence.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced, on Sunday, that the total number of Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank by the Israeli occupation this year has reached 505 people, including 111 children.
Early on Sunday morning, two Palestinian youths were martyred and others were critically injured in the Nour Shams refugee camp in Tulkarm, in the occupied West Bank, as Israeli occupation forces conducted a drone strike. Additionally, another Palestinian was killed by Israeli forces in Jenin.
Coinciding with continuous raids on cities and towns of the West Bank, the Israeli occupation has escalated its oppressive actions by heavily employing drone strikes as a means of "policing" the region.
Tulkarm and its refugee camp have seen a major share of the Israeli aggression, with dozens of Palestinians killed and injured, civilian infrastructure badly damaged, and hundreds arrested in multiple raids and incursions on the Palestinian governorate.
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