On Wednesday, Israeli soldiers abducted at least nineteen Palestinians, including a doctor and two children, in the Ramallah, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and Hebron governorates, in the central to southern regions of the occupied West Bank.
Israeli forces invaded, on Wedneday morning, many areas in the central West Bank governorate of Ramallah, stormed several citizens homes and abducted Hammam Iskandar Abdo, Ibrahim Mustafa Hamida, and Ahmed Marouf Zamra.
In the occupied Jerusalem governorate, soldiers abducted Muhammad Abdullah Abu Dayyeh and Ahmed Aziz Khalifa, on Wednesday morning.
In the evening, the occupation army invaded the homes of Ahmed Mutair and Ahmed Al-Rajabi in occupied Jerusalem, before abducting them.
In the southern West Bank, Israeli troops invaded the home of Muhammad Atta Al-Debs, 20, before abducting him near Bethlehem.
Soldiers stormed and ransacked citizens’ homes in the Bethlehem governorate, on Wednesday evening, and interrogated their residents.
Just before midnight on Wednesday, the army abducted the child, Sami Muhammad Hamamra, 16, and Bilal Awad Hamamra, 18, near Bethlehem.
Including a child, two siblings, and a physician, Israeli forces abducted nine Palestinians, on Wednesday morning, in the southern West Bank governorate of Hebron.
After invading many citizens’ homes, the army abducted Dr. Rashad Murshid Al-Zaro, the two brothers, Yassin and Islam Yousef Abu Hashhash, Yazan Issa Abu Hashhash, Ahmed Abdullah Al-Darbashi, Yaqoub Mahmoud Al-Bashiti, Nidal Mazen Ballout, the former prisoner, Basil Jamal Muhammad Breghith, 26, and the child, Muhammad Haitham Adi, 17, after assaulting him.
Soldiers fired concusiion grenades and tear gas canisters during some of the incursions into citizens’ homes, causing several people to suffer the toxic effects of tear gas inhalation.
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) said that, since October 7, 2023, the Israeli army abducted 7,700 Palestinians (including from historic Palestine), including 246 women, more than 500 children, and 61 journalists.
The total number of detainees is now more than 9,100, including more than 3,484 who are held under arbitrary Administrative Detention orders without charges or trial. (The exact number of detainees from the Gaza Strip cannot be determined due to Israel’s ongoing onslaught and siege.
Twenty-one of the abducted journalists were released and twenty-three others were slapped with arbitrary Administrative Detention orders.
Israel also issued 4.343 new or renewed Administrative Detention orders against abducted Palestinians, including women and children, since October 7.
The PPS stated that the abductions of the Palestinians included serious violations, including beating and extreme torture, in addition to assaults against their families, the destruction of homes and property, and the confiscation of cars, cash, and gold.
It also said that Israel recently revealed that 27 detainees from the Gaza Strip have died at a detention facility in Be’er As-Sabe’ (Beersheva), and continues to refuse to release more information about them or about the fate of the hundreds of Palestinians who were kidnapped from the Gaza Strip, but recently admitted that a soldier killed a detainee from Gaza, without release further details.
At least ten detainees from the West Bank also died in Israeli prisons since October 7.
