The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) said on Thursday that Israeli forces carried out a large‑scale campaign of abductions and field interrogations from Wednesday evening through Thursday morning, seizing at least 50 Palestinians across the occupied West Bank, including Jerusalem. Most of those abducted were former political prisoners, including one woman.
The PPS stated that the largest concentration of abductions and on‑site interrogations took place in the Ramallah governorate, while additional cases were documented in Hebron, Tubas, Tulkarem, Nablus, Jenin, and Jerusalem.
The campaign was accompanied by extensive home invasions, assaults on detainees and their families, and widespread destruction of property inside Palestinian homes.
During the invasion of Jenin city, the soldiers stopped a Palestinian ambulance and detained its crew at the entrance to Khalil Suleiman governmental hospital. The medics were rushing a patient to the hospital when the soldiers stopped them.
PPS said Israeli forces have increasingly relied on systematic field interrogations during invasions, targeting dozens of families across multiple governorates.
These interrogations often involve detaining residents outdoors for hours, questioning them under threat, and seizing phones or documents before withdrawing without providing any legal justification.
The PPS reported that more than 7,000 abductions were documented in the West Bank, including Jerusalem, since the beginning of 2025. Thousands more Palestinians were subjected to field interrogations without formal detention.
Since the start of the genocide in Gaza on 7 October 2023, PPS has documented around 21,000 abductions in the West Bank alone. This figure does not include the thousands of detentions and disappearances in Gaza, where Israeli forces have taken Palestinians from shelters, hospitals, and evacuation corridors, with many held incommunicado.
PPS and other rights groups say the pattern of abductions reflects a broader strategy aimed at disrupting Palestinian social life, suppressing political activity, and dismantling community structures. Former political prisoners, journalists, students, and community organizers have been among the primary targets.
The organization also noted that abductions are frequently accompanied by collective punishment tactics, including the destruction of homes, beatings, threats against family members, and the confiscation of vehicles, money, and personal belongings.
Human rights organizations have warned that the scale and nature of these abductions—combined with the widespread use of Administrative Detention without charge or trial—constitute a systematic policy of coercion and intimidation, carried out in violation of international humanitarian and human rights law.
