Jerusalem: Israeli occupation forces on Tuesday evening detained two Palestinians from the occupied West Bank governorate of Jerusalem, according to the Jerusalem Governorate. Citing Mohammad Mahmoud, an attorney representing the Wadi Hilweh Information Center, it said that the occupation forces rounded up two young men at the King Hussein border crossing while on their way to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to perform Umrah.
According to Palestine News and Information Agency - WAFA, the occupation forces severely beat up a young man from the Silwan neighborhood after detaining him, requiring his hospitalization. The man was intercepted and assaulted by the occupation soldiers while en route to his house in the al-Bustan neighborhood. He sustained bruises and wounds as a result. Meanwhile, the occupation forces rounded up two Palestinians from Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron.
Osama Makhamra, a media activist, reported that Israeli colonists assaulted Palestinian herders in the Wadi Abu Shabban area, opening fire at them, but without resulting in any injury. He added that gun-toting soldiers stormed the area to defend the assailants and unleashed a barrage of tear gas canisters towards Palestinian herders before assaulting and detaining two of them.
Earlier, the occupying forces detained 27 Palestinians in multiple predominantly pre-dawn raids across the occupied West Bank. In the Hebron district, the occupation forces detained a 65-year-old man from al-Burj village for preventing colonists from grazing their sheep on his land. They also showed up at a house at Khirbet Imneizel in Masafer Yatta and detained an occupant.
In the Tulkarm district, sources confirmed a raid in the Bal'a town, resulting in the detention of a man. Two Palestinians were also detained from al-Marah, a neighborhood of Jenin city. In the Nablus district, the occupation forces carried out multiple raids and ransacked many houses, leading to the detention of 22 Palestinians, including Mohammad Radwan Abu Thabet, a journalist, and Raja Oweis, a Fatah official.
The occupation forces frequently raid Palestinian houses almost daily across the West Bank on the pretext of searching for 'wanted' Palestinians, triggering clashes with residents. These raids are conducted without a search warrant, whenever and wherever the military chooses, in keeping with its sweeping, arbitrary powers.
Under Israeli military law, army commanders have full executive, legislative, and judicial authority over 3 million Palestinians living in the West Bank. Palestinians have no say in how this authority is exercised. 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 number includes approximately 3,358 Palestinians placed under 'administrative detention', which allows the detention of Palestinians without charge or trial for renewable intervals ranging between three and six months based on undisclosed evidence that even a detainee's lawyer is barred from viewing.
