On Tuesday, August 29, 2023, the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) arrested 39 Palestinians from different areas of the West Bank.
In Occupied Jerusalem; the occupation forces arrested the two young men Nihad and Imad Al-Abbasi from Silwan town, south of Aqsa Mosque.
In Nablus, the Israeli forces arrested 9 Palestinians, including: the two brothers Muhammad and Yazan al-Tanbour, Muhammad Ali Badrasawi, Akram Abu Zaytoun, Akram Diab, Mustafa Ahmed Shabeer Murad Saleh Issa, Wahid Ghassab Jabara, Thamin Turki Hamdan.
The Israeli forces also arrested two young sisters, Iman and Nisreen Eid Khamis after they tried to save their brother from a settler attack.
In Jenin; the Israeli forces arrested the two brothers, Izz al-Din and Mahmoud Muhammad Abu Ali, from Siris village.
The ex-prisoner Abdel Basset Ibrahim Abu Al-Ezz was also detained in Tulkarem.
In Hebron; the Israeli troops arrested 12 Palestinians, who were later identified as: Wajih, Alaa, Atef, Marwan, Ali, Qassam, Ibrahim, Musab, Al-Awawda, Ahmed and Youssef Al-Sharawneh, Baraa Khaled Al-Hawareen, and Bilal Abu Hussein.
Four other Palestinians were detained in Bethlehem, including Ahmed Ali Al-Sheikh, Uday Ahmed Al-Sheikh, Issa Mahmoud Musa, and Noureddine Saleh Al-Sheikh.
The Israeli forces also arrested the two young men, Hassan Abu Haniyeh and Yahya Abu Haniyeh, from the town of Azzun in Qalqilia.
In Ramallah; the IOF troops arrested five Palestinians, including Bassam Hammad, the university students Abdul Ghani Fares and Ahmed Turkman, Mustafa Gwanmeh and Obaidah Al-Barghouti.
The Israeli occupation army regularly conducts raid, search, and arrest operations in Palestinian towns across the West Bank, which have intensified this year with Palestinians arrested on a near-daily basis.
4,900 Palestinians are currently held in Israeli jails, including 28 women.
The right to liberty and personal security, among other fundamental human rights, are flagrantly violated by these arbitrary arrests. Detainees are held without proper justification or valid judicial warrants, infringing on their rights to personal freedom and a fair trial.
These violations highlight the urgent need for international intervention to ensure human rights are respected.
