The key facts

  • Six Palestinians detained in a single night: five in Jenin, one in the Askar camp near Nablus
  • Raids also took place in the Balata camp, near Salfit, Tubas, Tulkarm and Ramallah — no detentions there
  • According to the Wafa agency, about 9,350 Palestinians are held in Israeli prisons, including 350 children and 90 women

Night raids and detentions

In the early hours of Saturday, the Israeli army carried out raids in several parts of the occupied West Bank, accompanied by house searches, the Anadolu agency reports, citing local sources. In Jenin, in the north of the region, five Palestinians were detained and, according to sources, taken to an undisclosed location. In Nablus, according to the official Palestinian agency Wafa, troops stormed the Askar refugee camp east of the city, searched several homes and detained a young man inside his family's house.

Where else the raids took place

The army also entered the Balata refugee camp east of Nablus, where, according to Wafa, homes were searched and their contents ransacked. The raids also affected the town of az-Zawiya west of Salfit, Tammun south of Tubas, the suburb of Iktaba east of Tulkarm, and the al-Amari camp south of Ramallah — no detentions were reported in these locations, according to local sources.

Context

Anadolu notes that the Israeli army conducts near-daily detention campaigns across the West Bank, targeting men, women and children; the incursions, according to the agency, are often accompanied by assaults on family members and damage to household property. According to the figures it cites, around 9,350 Palestinian prisoners are held in Israeli prisons, including 350 children and 90 women. Human rights organizations, as the outlet points out, report torture, starvation and denial of medical care to detainees, which have led to the deaths of dozens of prisoners. These assessments belong to the sources and human rights advocates mentioned in the publication and were not independently verified within it.