Palestinian Prisoners Club: Israeli forces arrest, interrogate at least 130 Palestinians in West Bank, Quds

Since yesterday evening until this morning, Wednesday, Israeli forces have conducted widespread arrest and field interrogation operations targeting at least 130 Palestinian citizens in the West Bank, including two women, a child, and former prisoners.

The Palestinian Prisoners Club stated in a press release that the arrests and field interrogations took place across most of the West Bank governorates, with a concentration in the towns of Burin and Madama in the Nablus governorate, the town of Aqaba in the Tubas governorate, and the town of Immatin in the Qalqilya governorate. The club noted that the majority of those arrested were interrogated in the field and subsequently released.

The club added that the Israeli enemy continues to escalate its arrest and field interrogation operations at an increasing pace since the beginning of this year, in an unprecedented manner since the genocide, targeting all segments of Palestinian society as acts of collective punishment.

The Palestinian Prisoners Club indicated that the Israeli enemy has adopted a series of policies and committed crimes in the various areas it raids and arrests in the West Bank. The most prominent of these is the practice of field interrogations, which now constitutes the most prominent policy implemented by the enemy in all West Bank governorates without exception. The Club emphasized that when the Israeli army raids homes for the purpose of field interrogations, it forces families to leave their homes, terrorizes them, and carries out acts of vandalism and destruction inside the houses before arresting or detaining them, often in the cold weather.

The Club reiterated that all current crimes committed by the Israeli enemy are an extension of its decades-long policy of targeting the Palestinian presence and imposing further tools of repression, control, and surveillance. The only change since the beginning of this war of extermination is the increased intensity of these crimes, whether those committed during arrest operations or those committed against prisoners inside prisons and detention camps. It is worth noting that the Israeli occupation authorities are continuing their arrest operations, which constitute one of the most prominent and systematic policies they implement daily against Palestinian citizens. The number of arrests in the West Bank since the war has exceeded 21,000.