Israeli army arrests 11 Palestinians in occupied West Bank raids

The Israeli army arrested 11 Palestinians, including former prisoners and a woman, during raids across the occupied West Bank early Thursday, seizing money, mobile phones, and a car, according to the Palestinian Prisoners Media Office. In a statement, the non-governmental office said Israeli forces arrested seven Palestinians, including former prisoners, during a raid on the city of Qalqilya in the northern West Bank. In Nablus governorate, Israeli forces arrested a woman after raiding her home in southern Nablus city. They seized mobile phones, an unspecified amount of money, and identification documents, the statement said. The army also arrested a young man at his home in the southern neighborhood of Tulkarem city in the northern West Bank, and another young man during a raid on the town of Silwad, northeast of Ramallah in the central West Bank. The forces seized the latter’s car, according to the office. Israeli forces also arrested Yousef Ghannam, a member of the secretariat of the Fatah Youth Movement and coordinator of the Student Youth Movement at Palestine Polytechnic University, while he was stopped at a military checkpoint, the statement added. The Palestinian Prisoners Media Office condemned the continued arrest campaigns across the occupied West Bank, emphasizing that the incidents were part of an ongoing policy of pursuing and restricting Palestinians. Around 9,350 Palestinians, including 350 children and 90 women, are held in Israeli prisons, where human rights groups have reported widespread torture, starvation, and medical neglect, contributing to dozens of deaths in custody.