ISRAEL KIDNAPPED 127 PALESTINIANS IN FIRST WEEK OF SEPTEMBER

– Israeli forces detained 127 Palestinians across the West Bank during the first week of September alone. Photo: Archive — **Israeli forces detained 127 Palestinians across the West Bank during the first week of September alone.** Photo: Archive

Ramallah, 12 Dzulqa’dah 1435/7 September 2014 (MINA) – Israeli forces detained 127 Palestinians across the West Bank during the first week of September alone, a prisoner rights watchdog said Sunday.

The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society said in a statement that the largest number of detainees were from Hebron district, where 28 Palestinians were taken by Israeli forces, Ma’an News Agency quoted by Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA) as reporting.

The statement said that 23 of the detainees were from the Jenin district in the northern West Bank, 21 from Ramallah, 20 from Jerusalem, 12 from Bethlehem, eight from Tulkarem, six from Nablus, three from Qalqiliya, and six from the Tubas/Salfit district.

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The statement also said that Israeli forces detained 10 Palestinians overnight Saturday, of whom seven were taken from Hebron, one from Bethlehem, and two from Beit Sira village in western Ramallah district.

More than 7,000 Palestinians are currently being held in Israeli prisons, including around 2,000 detained during Israeli arrest campaigns over the last three months alone.

In daily basis, the Palestinians in the West Bank suffer discrimination and threats of torture, kidnapping and searching. Israeli soldiers used to raids houses at midnight when people are resting of daily routine.

In addition to forcibly entered and ransacked houses, the soldiers randomly arrest Palestinians without clear charges, and most of those arrested are not given trial. (T/R04/P3)

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Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA)