Occupation forces round up 23 Palestinians in the West Bank

HEBRON: Israeli occupation forces arrested at least 23 Palestinians, mostly from Hebron, across the West Bank in a wide-scale arrest campaign last night and this morning, according to the Palestinian Prisoner's Society (PPS). Israeli occupation forces detained 12 Palestinians from the city of Hebron in the south of the West Bank. Israeli soldiers raided the town of Beit Awa, southwest of Hebron, where they carried out a wide-scale arrest campaign, resulting in detaining 11 Palestinians. Israeli forces further detained a Palestinian after breaking into the town of Dura, southwest of the city. In the aftermath of the military incursion, the occupying military forces wracked havoc on several houses and tampered with their contents. Forces reportedly set up flying military checkpoints, and closed a number of main and secondary roads with iron gates, cement cubes and earth mounds. Meanwhile, Israeli forces detained Jad Nasr Al-Rimawi, an ex-detainee in Israeli jails, while he was present at his workplace in the village of Jeffna. Rimawi, who came from the town of Beit Rima, northwest of Ramallah, was arrested in 2014, and spent 8 years behind occupation jails before he was released in 2022. Israeli forces also detained another Palestinian from Jalazoun camp, north of Ramallah. A Palestinian father along with his son were detained following an Israeli raid of the village of Beitin, east of Ramallah. Forces reportedly detained two Palestinian children from Shuafat refugee camp, north of occupied Jerusalem, after breaking into and searching their families' houses. In north of the West Bank, Israeli forces raided the town of Zababdeh, southeast of Jenin, and detained five Palestinians. Source: Palestine news and Information Agency – WAFA