The Palestinian Prisoners' Club said that Israel launched an arrest campaign, at dawn today (Friday), that included 70 Palestinians, concentrated in the cities of Jerusalem, Hebron, and Bethlehem in the West Bank, according to Reuters.

The club added, in a statement, that among those detained were “two women and a journalist, in light of the continued arrest campaigns and systematic mass revenge operations against our people since the seventh of October.”

The club explained, in its statement, that “thus, the total number of arrests since October 7, the date of the start of the Al-Aqsa Flood battle, has risen to more than 1,530 arrests.” He added that most of those arrested during this period are being transferred to administrative detention.

Israel uses a law dating back to the British Mandate period, which allows it to detain Palestinians without trial for a period ranging between 3 and 6 months, which can be renewed under the pretext of “the existence of a security file for the detainee.”

Israeli officials stated that the arrests target leaders and members of the Hamas movement in the West Bank.

Palestinian statistics indicate that the number of Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons reached more than 6,600.