Israeli army detains five Palestinians in West Bank raids

Raids in Burin and Qalandia

The Israeli army detained five Palestinians on Sunday, carrying out raids on their homes in Nablus and in the Qalandia refugee camp north of East Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank, the Anadolu agency reports. According to the Palestinian Prisoners' Affairs Bureau (a non-governmental organization), four young men were detained in the village of Burin, south of Nablus, after house searches, and one more young man was detained in the Qalandia camp.

Context: the scale of detentions

The outlet notes that the Israeli army carries out detentions in the West Bank almost daily, and such operations, as described by the source, are often accompanied by the use of force against family members and damage to property. According to Palestinian data, about 9,350 Palestinians are held in Israeli prisons, including 350 children and 90 women. Human rights organizations, as Anadolu points out, report torture, starvation and lack of medical care that have led to dozens of deaths. Since the start of the war in Gaza in October 2023, according to Palestinian estimates, attacks in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, have killed more than 1,220 Palestinians, about 13,350 have been wounded, and more than 26,000 have been detained. These figures are provided by the Palestinian side and were not independently confirmed in the publication itself.