Occupied Jerusalem, Feb. 22 (SANA) – The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society said Israeli occupation forces have arrested more than 100 Palestinians across the West Bank since the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan, including women and children.
In a statement published Sunday and carried by Palestinian media, the group said arrests were carried out in most West Bank governorates, including Jerusalem, which has seen intensified arrest campaigns during Ramadan alongside widespread field interrogations.
The Prisoner’s Society said the arrests form part of collective punitive measures imposed by the Israeli occupation since the start of the ongoing war of genocide, targeting thousands of Palestinians through systematic repression.
The statement detailed a range of violations accompanying the arrest campaigns, including severe beatings, organized acts of intimidation against detainees and their families, home raids and destruction, confiscation of vehicles, money and gold, damage to infrastructure, demolition of prisoners’ family homes, taking relatives as hostages, using detainees as human shields, and carrying out field executions.
It added that the occupation exploits mass arrests as a cover to expand settlement activity in the West Bank, with settler groups playing a direct role in enforcing new facts on the ground, particularly amid renewed efforts to annex the territory.
The Prisoner’s Society stressed that arrest campaigns remain a longstanding and systematic policy of the Israeli occupation, carried out on a daily basis. It said the number of arrest cases in the West Bank since the start of the war has reached approximately 22,000.
Earlier this month, the society reported that the number of Palestinian detainees held in Israeli occupation prisons exceeded 9,300.
