Israeli occupation arrests 26 Palestinians in the West bank

OCCUPIED AL-QUDS, March.30, (ST)- The Israeli occupation forces on Wednesday detained 26 Palestinians in multiple raids across the West Bank, according to WAFA News Agency..

The agency quoted local sources as saying that Israeli occupation forces rounded up 5 Palestinians from the central West Bank district of Ramallah and al-Bireh.

In the northern side of the West Bank, the occupation’s military vehicles stormed Ya‘bad town in the west of Jenin where five others were arrested, and they raided Bir al-Basha village, in the southwest of the city

Elsewhere in the northern West Bank, heavily-armed occup[ation forces barged their way into Kafr Qaddum town, in the east of Qalqiliya city, and detained 4 teenagers.

They detained another one along with his nephew from Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus, and ransacked the houses of their families, turning them upside down.

In Al-Quds [Jerusalem], Israeli occupation searched a house in Al-Issawiya neighborhood, and detained a Palestinian young man.

In the southern West Bank, the sources confirmed a raid in  al-‘Ibayyat village, east of Bethlehem, resulting in the detention of 4 others, including 2 brothers.

Gun-toting soldiers forcibly entered a house in Husan village, west of the city, and detained another.

Meanwhile, 3 residents of Beit Ummar town, north of Hebron, were detained after being stopped at Huwara military checkpoint, south of Nablus.

Israeli forces frequently raid Palestinian houses almost on a daily basis across the West Bank under the pretext of searching for “wanted” Palestinians, triggering clashes with residents.

These raids, which take place also in areas under the full control of the Palestinian Authority, are conducted with no need for a search warrant, whenever and wherever the military chooses in keeping with its sweeping arbitrary powers.

Edited by: Basma Qaddour