Israeli forces carried out a series of raids across various areas of the West Bank at dawn on Sunday, detaining 13 Palestinians, while others were held for questioning and later released.
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In the town of Al-Zawiya, west of Salfit in the northern West Bank, Israeli troops detained 10 Palestinians, questioned them, and released them shortly afterward, according to the official Palestinian news agency WAFA.
In the nearby village of Qarawat Bani Hassan, also in Salfit, the army held 12 Palestinians for field interrogation before releasing them, WAFA reported.
In Nablus (north), Israeli forces arrested a young man from the village of Tell, southwest of the city, along with three others from the neighboring village of Surra. Israeli troops also raided Balata refugee camp east of Nablus and tore down posters of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces, according to local sources cited by Anadolu Agency.
The same sources reported that Israeli special forces infiltrated the Old City of Nablus, stormed the Al-Yasmina quarter, arrested a Palestinian man, and took him to an unknown location. Troops also fired tear gas canisters around the Old City, though no injuries were reported.
In the southern West Bank, Israeli forces arrested five Palestinians from the town of Beit Fajjar, south of Bethlehem, after raiding and searching their homes, local sources said.
Three more young men were arrested in the town of Sa'ir, east of Hebron, following house raids there.
These incidents come amid ongoing Israeli escalation in the West Bank since the start of the war on Gaza, which has resulted in the killing of more than 1,085 Palestinians, the injury of nearly 11,000 others, and the arrest of over 21,000 people.
The Israeli war on Gaza, which began on October 8, 2023, and continued for two years with U.S. support, has left more than 70,000 Palestinians dead and around 171,000 wounded—most of them children and women—along with massive destruction and reconstruction costs estimated by the United Nations at around $70 billion.
