At least 6,500, Palestinians arrested in West Bank since Oct 7

AL-QUDS, Feb. 03 (YPA) – About 6,500, Palestinian citizens have been arrested by the Israeli occupation forces in the occupied West Bank since October 7, according to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club on Saturday.

The Club affirmed in a statement that the statistics included those who were arrested from homes, through military checkpoints, as well as those who were forced to surrender themselves under pressure, and those who were held hostage.

The statement pointed out that the Israeli occupation’s continuing to “carry out the crime of enforced disappearance against detainees in the Gaza Strip, 120 days after the aggression and genocide.”

On Friday, the Palestinian Commission for Detainees and Ex-Prisoners’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club said that the Israeli occupation forces, on Tuesday and Wednesday night, launched a new arrest campaign in the West Bank, arresting about 28 citizens, including two women who were arrested as hostages.

The arrest campaign was concentrated in the provinces of Nablus and Ramallah and Qalqilya, in addition to the provinces of Bethlehem, Jenin, and al-Quds.

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