Today, Monday, the Captive Club said, “Since the beginning of this year, the Israeli occupation forces have arrested about (170) citizens from Jericho governorate, concentrated in Aqabat Jaber camp, where more than 100 cases of arrest have been made, in light of the escalation of the current confrontation with the occupation. Note that this percentage is the highest it has been in Jericho for years.”

The club added, in a statement, that the arrests carried out by the occupation forces, specifically in Aqabat Jabr camp, were accompanied by field executions and systematic abuse of detainees and their families. The vandalism of the homes of citizens, and the targeting of several members of the same family, including the families of martyrs who died during the current year, and we mention among them the family of the administrative detainee Wael Awadat, whose two of his sons, Raafat and Ibrahim, were martyred, and his third son, Abdul Hafez, was arrested.

The Captive Club pointed out that among the cases of arrest were 22 children under the age of 18. Three of them were transferred to administrative detention, and they are: Mowad Omar Al-Hajj, Ali Bassam Al-Sheikh Ibrahim, and Jamal Khalil Brahma. It is noteworthy that the three children are from Among the 15 detainees from Ariha, they were transferred to administrative detention.