Israeli occupation forces abducted at least 16 Palestinians during a large-scale military invasion of Anata town, northeast of occupied Jerusalem, in the West Bank, early Saturday morning.
Media sources reported that Israeli troops stormed the town at dawn, conducting extensive searches across streets and neighborhoods.
Dozens of homes were invaded and ransacked, with residents subjected to aggressive interrogations and property damage.
One home belonging to the Ghaith family was forcibly converted into a makeshift field detention and interrogation center.
The soldiers then abducted Yasser Mousa Al-Rifa’i, Osama Jamil Halwa, Yousef Mohammad Al-Rifa’i, Malek Sami Al-Rifa’i, Mohammad Adnan Al-Rifa’i, Yazid Ahmad Mahmoud Ibrahim and his brother Mahmoud, Wasim Ahmad Saleh Ibrahim, Amjad Hussein Halwa and his brother Ahmad, Mahmoud Mohammad Al-Rifa’, Montaser Ibrahim Al-Yamani and his brother Malek, Ahmad Mohammad Halwa, Eid Ayman Hamdan, and Mousa Mahmoud Ibrahim.
This escalation is part of Israel’s ongoing policy of night-time invasions, home demolitions, and field detentions across the occupied West Bank. Residents are routinely held in improvised interrogation centers, while homes are searched, vandalized, and in many cases, destroyed.
The late invasion in Anata reflects a broader pattern of collective punishment and arbitrary detention targeting Palestinian civilians, particularly in areas surrounding Jerusalem and Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank.
