The West Bank is witnessing a continuous escalation that weighs heavily on the lives of Palestinian civilians, where daily arrest campaigns and accompanying assaults have become part of a grim reality that lacks the minimum standards of humanitarian protection.
In this context, from Monday night to Tuesday morning, Israeli occupation forces launched a new arrest campaign, detaining at least 50 Palestinians from various governorates, including Jerusalem, an indication of the widening scope of repressive measures.
The campaign was concentrated in Qalqilya and Jericho, while also extending to Jenin, Bethlehem, Nablus, and Ramallah, alongside ongoing daily field interrogations in Beit Ummar in the Hebron governorate.
These operations were accompanied by violent practices, including assaults on detainees and their families, direct live fire that endangered civilian lives, and the use of some detainees as temporary hostages for coercion or interrogation, a method that violates human dignity and subjects individuals to further harm.
Homes targeted during these raids also faced extensive vandalism and destruction, reflecting a pattern not limited to arrests, but also aimed at damaging private property and causing immediate psychological and living distress to families.
This recurring pattern reveals the dominance of brute force over legal guarantees and fundamental rights that any detainee should have, such as knowing the reasons for their arrest and undergoing fair procedures.
This campaign forms part of a daily arrest policy targeting all segments of Palestinian society. Since the start of the genocidal war, arrest cases in the West Bank have reached approximately 20,500, underscoring a painful reality where the civilian space for safe living is shrinking, and the gap between human rights and on-the-ground practices continues to widen.
