Israeli army arrests 365 Palestinians from West Bank’s Tulkarm, Jenin since January

The Israeli military arrested at least 365 Palestinians from the Jenin and Tulkarem governorates since the beginning of its offensive in northern West Bank on 21 January, Anadolu Agency reports.

Israel “continues to escalate its operations of arrests and on-site investigations, particularly in the Jenin governorate and its refugee camp, as well as in Tulkarem and its camps, since the beginning of the current aggression,” Palestinian Prisoners Society said in a statement.

The group described the Israeli operations as “an extension of the systematic policy of arrests, which has escalated in intensity since the genocidal war.”

The statement noted that the ongoing and escalating arrest operations are accompanied by “summary executions, direct shootings or threats thereof, as well as severe beatings and on-site investigations affecting hundreds.”

Meanwhile, the Israeli military has arrested Palestinians as hostages by surrounding homes with military barracks. The military targeted other homes for demolition, dynamiting, and burning, in addition to deliberate destruction of infrastructure, according to the society.

It also said that Israel has arrested nearly 14,500 citizens from the West Bank since Oct. 7, 2023.

The Israeli army has been conducting military operations in the northern West Bank since Jan. 21, killing at least 61 Palestinians and displacing thousands.

The assault came amid rising tensions in the occupied West Bank, where at least 923 Palestinians have been killed and nearly 7,000 others injured in attacks by the Israeli army and illegal settlers since the start of the Gaza war on Oct. 7, 2023, according to the Health Ministry.

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