From yesterday evening until Saturday morning, the Israeli occupation forces arrested about 40 Palestinians from the West Bank, a number of whom were later released. The arrest operations were concentrated in the Hebron Governorate, which is witnessing the highest arrest campaigns after the seventh of October, while the rest of the arrests were distributed among Governorates: Tubas, Ramallah, Jerusalem, Jericho, and Tulkarm, in addition to the arrest of a number of Gaza workers in the town of Al-Jabaa, and we were not able to confirm their identities.

The arrest campaign was accompanied by widespread torture, severe beatings, field investigations, and threats against the detainees and their families, which amounted to threats of shooting, in addition to widespread sabotage and destruction of citizens’ homes, and the confiscation of possessions from homes, the most important of which were the detainees’ phones, in addition to the arrest of... Citizens are taken hostage to pressure family members to surrender themselves.

Thus, the number of arrests after the seventh of last October rises to about (2850), and this number includes those who were arrested from homes, through military checkpoints, those who were forced to surrender themselves under pressure, those who were held hostage, those who were summoned and arrested later, and those who were arrested for the purpose of field investigation. They were later released.

The Prisoners' Commission and the Prisoners' Club confirmed that these arrest campaigns come within the framework of the comprehensive aggression against Palestinian people and the ongoing genocide in Gaza after the 7th of October, and they are an extension of a consistent policy implemented by the occupation over many decades against citizens, which escalated significantly after the 7th of October.