Over 180 Palestinians Detained in Last Five Days, Says Prisoners Commission
RAMALLAH – Israeli military detained 183 Palestinians in the West Bank and al-Quds in the last five days while the number of those detained since the beginning of the month has reached 330, the Palestinian Authority’s Prisoners Commission said on Monday, according to Wafa News Agency.
It said in most cases the soldiers had assaulted and mistreated the detainees to a point some of them were admitted to hospital.
The Prisoners Society also said that the Israeli army detained on Monday 16 Palestinians in the West Bank.
It said nine of the detainees were from the Ramallah area, three from Bethlehem area, including two 17-year-old teenagers, one from Tulkarm and one from Balata refugee camp in Nablus.
Two more were detained in occupied al-Quds, it said.
Israeli forces conduct military drills near school in Jordan Valley; kick out residents
Meantime, Israeli forces conducted on Monday military drills near Aqaba and Tayasir villages east of the town of Toubas in the Jordan Valley and placed its tanks and military vehicles near Tayasir Boy School, according to local sources.
The army had also ordered 14 Palestinian families from Khirbet Ibziq, to the north of Toubas, to leave their homes on Sunday night because of the large-scale military drills in the area.
The sources told WAFA that Israeli forces deployed dozens of tanks and armored vehicles at the entrance of Aqaba and that explosions of artillery shells were heard all over that area.
Palestinians believe the military drills are intended to push them out of their lands and villages in order to replace them with Jewish settlers.
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