The Commission for Ex-Prisoners' Affairs reported that the arrests carried out by the occupation army in the West Bank and Jerusalem from October 7 until Tuesday morning amounted to 680 detainees, including 25% young people, the sick and the elderly, including 88 who were arrested last night and at dawn today, and 35 workers from the southern governorates (Gaza) who were expelled by the occupation from their work to the West Bank governorates, where they were arrested from the industrial school in Halhul, north of Hebron, as they were residing there collectively.

The Commission explained that the majority of detainees are liberated prisoners, and they were arrested from their homes after they were stormed in a brutal and barbaric manner, and a few cases were arrested at the checkpoints that are widely spread at the main entrances to the governorates and between Palestinian villages.

The Commission confirmed that the occupation authorities carry out arrest operations in a vengeful and random manner, and their aim is to arrest the largest number to put pressure on the Palestinian resistance and to perpetuate the policy of collective punishment.

The Commission indicated that the occupation arrested dozens and perhaps hundreds of Palestinian people from the southern governorates, and the information and data related to them are still ambiguous, due to the occupation declaring that they are illegal fighters, and they are being held in special places.

Source: Maan News Agency