The Israeli occupation army arrested approximately 2,300 Palestinians in the past year in the Jenin and Tulkarm governorates of the northern occupied West Bank, as part of a campaign to displace tens of thousands of residents and destroy the infrastructure and social fabric of refugee camps.
The Palestinian Prisoners Club stated in a press release on Tuesday, marking the one-year anniversary of the military operation in the northern West Bank camps, which began on January 21, 2015, that the Israeli army arrested 2,300 Palestinians from the Jenin, Tulkarm, and Nur Shams refugee camps.
The statement indicated that the arrests targeted various segments of the population and were part of a comprehensive campaign characterized by its indiscriminate nature and systematic escalation. This included converting Palestinian homes into military barracks and field interrogation centers, as well as carrying out brutal physical assaults, torture, and direct threats against individuals and their families.
The Club added that the occupation forces used civilians as hostages and human shields, and conducted looting, pillaging, and demolition operations, including the destruction of hundreds of homes in the camps. This resulted in the displacement of tens of thousands and the imposition of a forced reality on the residents. He pointed out that the arrests come within a broader context of mass arrest campaigns that have been ongoing since the Israeli war of extermination on the Gaza Strip in October 2013 (which lasted two years), and which affected more than 21,000 Palestinians in the West Bank, in addition to thousands from the Gaza Strip.
