Israel detains 35 more Palestinians in West Bank
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Israeli forces detained 35 more Palestinians in West Bank on Monday, taking the tally of detainees in the occupied territory to 4,730 since Oct. 7, according to prisoners’ affairs groups.
The arrests took place in the cities of Nablus, Tulkarem, Ramallah, Bethlehem, Hebron and East Jerusalem, the Commission for Detainees and Ex-Prisoners’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner Society said in a joint statement.
The figure of detainees does not include those arrested by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip.
As the world’s attention has been focused on Gaza, where Israel since the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas has killed at least 20,674 Palestinians and led to a humanitarian catastrophe, more than 300 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank by Israeli army fire and in attacks by illegal Jewish.