The Palestinian Detainees Committee and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) said Israeli soldiers abducted, Tuesday, at least thirty-two Palestinians, including children, from several parts of the occupied West Bank.
They stated that the soldiers stormed and ransacked dozens of homes and buildings across the West Bank, causing excessive damage, before interrogating many Palestinians while inspecting their ID cards.
They added that two of the abducted Palestinians are also former political prisoners who were recently released under the latest prisoner-swap mediated deal.
Among the abducted Palestinians are six children from Aboud village, west of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and the head of Rantis Village Council, Moath Ayed Khatib, while crossing a military roadblock, west of the city.
The abducted children in Aboud are Ayyoub Mohammad Barghouthi, 13, Odai Thabet Barghouthi, 13, Abdullah Thabet Barghouthi, 16, Adel Dia’ Barghouthi, 13, Abdul-Majid Na’el Barghouthi, 13, and Mohammad Jibril Barghouthi, 13.
The abductions were mainly carried out in the governorates of Ramallah, Hebron, Tulkarem, Nablus, Jenin, Jerusalem, and Bethlehem.
Israel has now abducted more than 7,120 Palestinians since October 7, 2023, mostly from their homes, and others were taken at military roadblocks, including sudden roadblocks, and many had to turn themselves in after the soldiers took members of their families, including mothers and father, hostages to pressure them into surrendering.
In the Gaza Strip, after 137 days of the ongoing genocide in the coastal enclave, the Israeli army abducted hundreds of Palestinians, whose fate remains unknown, as Israel refuses to respond to requests from the Red Cross and various Human Rights groups, inquiring about them, their conditions and their whereabouts.
According to the Ad-Dameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, Israel is holding captive at least 9,000 detainees, including 70 women, 200 children, and 3,484 who are held under arbitrary Administrative Detention orders without charges or trial.
First Published on: Feb 21, 2024 at 05:55
