Tulkarm: Israeli occupation forces on Friday detained seven Palestinians from the northern occupied West Bank governorate of Tulkarm, according to local sources. They reported that Israeli troops apprehended a girl after invading her family's house in the Shweika neighborhood, north of Tulkarm, allegedly for posting 'inciting' content on social media.
According to Palestine News and Information Agency, earlier in the day, the occupying forces detained six youths and ransacked their families' houses in Deir al-Ghusun town, also north of Tulkarm, causing significant disorder inside. Additionally, the soldiers arrested a man after stopping his vehicle in the city of Beit Jala, west of Bethlehem. The detainee was identified as a resident of Bani Naim town, north of Hebron.
In another incident in the Ramallah governorate, a convoy of army vehicles stormed Kafr Malek village, where soldiers broadcasted Hebrew songs over loudspeakers. Local sources reported similar raids in Az-Zawiya town, west of Salfit, and Kafr Qallil, south of Nablus, where soldiers broke into several houses, conducted searches, and interrogated the occupants.
On Thursday evening, Israeli soldiers at the A-Shuhada military checkpoint in the Old City of Hebron detained a 15-year-old boy on his way to his family home in the Rumeida neighborhood. The occupation forces frequently conduct raids on Palestinian houses almost daily across the West Bank, claiming to search for 'wanted' Palestinians, which often leads to clashes with residents. These operations are carried out without warrants, in accordance with the military's extensive powers.
Under Israeli military law, army commanders possess complete executive, legislative, and judicial authority over the 3 million Palestinians residing in the West Bank. Palestinians have no influence over the exercise of this authority. According to the latest figures from Addameer, the Palestinian Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, there are currently 9,300 Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli prisons and detention centers, including 350 child prisoners and 56 female prisoners.
This includes approximately 3,358 Palestinians held under 'administrative detention', a practice allowing the detention of Palestinians without charge or trial for renewable periods of three to six months based on undisclosed evidence, which even a detainee's lawyer cannot access.
