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Israel Detains More Than 100 Palestinians, Including Women and Children, in Occupied West Bank Since Ramadan Began
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Israeli forces arrested over 100 Palestinians in the West Bank since Ramadan began Detentions included women, children, and former detainees
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Ramadan arrests in West Bank
Israeli forces have detained more than 100 Palestinians across the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem since the start of Ramadan, with arrests reported to include women, children and former detainees, according to Palestinian prisoner groups and regional press. The Palestinian Prisoner's Society and the Palestinian Prisoners Center reported the wave of detentions and said they occurred in most West Bank governorates, including Jerusalem, and often coincided with intensified military raids and settler violence. Coverage situates these Ramadan arrests within a wider pattern of escalated operations across the West Bank since October 2023.
“The Palestinian Prisoner's Society said Israeli forces have arrested more than 100 Palestinians across the West Bank since the start of Ramadan, including women, children and former detainees.”
Gaza arrests and detentions
Different sources provide contrasting figures and timeframes for the wider toll of arrests and detentions since the Gaza campaign began. Some outlets report that more than 22,000 Palestinians have been detained since the start of the Gaza war, while others highlight that about 9,300 people are currently held in Israeli prisons (including children and women). Those differences reflect varying emphases — total arrests since October 2023 versus current prison populations — and different institutional sources (Palestinian prisoner groups, human-rights reports, and media quoting Israeli newspapers).
Detention rights allegations
Human-rights allegations about conditions in detention are prominent across the sources. Reports cite alleged starvation, denial of communal prayer and access to religious texts, torture, medical neglect and deaths among detainees. Middle East Eye frames these claims as coming from rights groups.
“Palestinian and Israeli human‑rights reports cited in the article say more than 9,300 Palestinians are held in Israeli jails ... suffering alleged torture, starvation and medical neglect that has led to dozens of deaths.”
Al-Jazeera attributes them to "Palestinian and Israeli human‑rights reports." These allegations are echoed by regional outlets that document both prison conditions and field interrogation practices during raids.
Settler violence and raids
Reports emphasize settler violence, demolitions and forced displacement alongside Israeli military operations. Al-Jazeera Net provides detailed local examples, including raids on Bedouin communities, burned agricultural structures and families forced to dismantle tents.
Al-Jazeera Net quotes Haaretz and human-rights groups on demolitions and a national guard "operating without controls, oversight or law." Regional outlets and prisoner groups link the uptick in raids and arrests to these settler-driven incidents and say operations frequently involve live ammunition, rubber bullets and tear gas.
Ramadan arrests coverage
Taken together, the sources present consistent reporting that Ramadan has seen an uptick in arrests affecting women, children and communities in Jerusalem and the West Bank. They differ in scale, emphasis and language, ranging from rights-based allegations of torture and starvation to political characterizations such as "collective punishment" or "war of genocide".
“A rights group says more than 9,300 Palestinians — including about 350 children — are currently held in Israeli prisons.”
Where figures or characterizations conflict or vary, the divergence often reflects different statistical scopes—current detainees versus cumulative arrests—and editorial choices about attribution and severity. These disagreements are visible across reporting by the Qatar news agency (Other), Middle East Eye (Western Alternative), Al-Jazeera Net (West Asian) and خبرگزاری اطلس (Other).
