Israeli army arrests 23 Palestinians in West Bank
RAMALLAH (AA) – The Israeli army has arrested 23 Palestinians during a raid on a number of West Bank governorates.
In a statement, the Palestinian Prisoners Club said: “The detainees are from the governorates of Hebron, Bethlehem (south), Tulkarm, and Jenin (north).”
The club also added that among the detainees, eight were from the Al-Ajouli family from Hebron.
These arrests “constitute the most prominent systematic and consistent policies implemented by the occupation authorities on a daily basis,” the statement added.
The Israeli army frequently carries out wide-ranging arrest campaigns across the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem on the pretext of searching for “wanted” Palestinians.
According to the institutions concerned with prisoners’ affairs, there are currently 4,650 Palestinians held in jails in Israel.
The Israeli Information Centre for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories days that under what is known as the ‘administrative detention’ policy of Israel, “a person is held without trial without having committed an offense, on the grounds that he or she plans to break the law in the future. As this measure is supposed to be preventive, it has no time limit. The person is detained without legal proceedings, by order of the regional military commander, based on classified evidence that is not revealed to them. This leaves the detainees helpless – facing unknown allegations with no way to disprove them, not knowing when they will be released, and without being charged, tried or convicted.”
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