The Palestinian Prisoners' Media Office reported, according to the Palestinian News Agency (WAFA), that Israeli forces arrested 19 Palestinians during raids that targeted a number of governorates, during which dozens of homes were stormed and their contents vandalized.
In the Nablus governorate in the northern West Bank, 12 citizens were arrested after their homes were raided in the towns of Asira al-Shamaliya and Beit Furik, while a citizen and two of his sons were arrested in the town of Kafr al-Dik in the Salfit governorate.
In the southern West Bank, two young men were arrested during a raid on the town of Tuqu’, southeast of Bethlehem, while a 14-year-old boy was arrested from the village of Aboud, northwest of Ramallah, in addition to a young man from the town of Ni’lin.
The Israeli army typically does not announce the reasons for arrests, but classifies them as "security campaigns" against wanted individuals. According to official Palestinian figures, the number of prisoners in Israeli jails exceeds 9,300, including 66 women and 350 children.
In a related context, the Israeli authorities forced a Jerusalemite citizen to demolish his own house in the town of Beit Hanina, north of occupied Jerusalem, on the pretext of building without a permit.
The Jerusalem Governorate stated that the house, which had an area of 35 square meters, was home to a young man and his newlywed wife, noting that it was forced to be demolished to avoid incurring additional costs and financial penalties.
Wafa news agency also reported that settlers, under the protection of Israeli forces, attacked Palestinian homes in Khirbet al-Hamma in the northern Jordan Valley, searching houses and vandalizing their contents. The forces arrested Ammar Faqha before releasing him later.
In another incident, settlers attacked a young man in the Wadi al-Hajj Issa area between the villages of Aqrabah and Jurish, south of Nablus, amid escalating and repeated attacks in the area in recent days.
Since launching its war of extermination on the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, Israel has intensified its attacks in the West Bank, including killing, arrests, displacement, and settlement expansion, in a course that Palestinians see as paving the way for the formal annexation of the West Bank.
Since that date, the attacks in the West Bank have resulted in the martyrdom of at least 1,112 Palestinians, and about 11,500 injuries, in addition to the arrest of about 22,000.
