A Palestinian young man has sustained critical injuries following a physical assault while being detained by Israeli soldiers during a night raid in the occupied West Bank.
Faraan: The Palestinian Wafa news agency quoting local sources reported on Sunday that scores of Israeli soldiers at midnight broke into the house of Abdessalem Salhab in the village of Qilqis, south of al-Khalil. They assaulted the family members, especially Ahmad, who was later taken away to an undisclosed location.
The family was later informed that Ahmad, in his 20s, had been moved in critical health condition to Soroka Medical Center in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba.
Separately, Israeli forces and their undercover agents made a number of arrests after storming some neighborhoods across Ramallah.
The Israeli military frequently carries out wide-ranging arrest campaigns across the West Bank under the pretext of searching for “wanted” Palestinians.
More than 7,000 Palestinians are reportedly held in Israeli jails. Hundreds have been incarcerated under the practice of administrative detention, which allows holding Palestinian inmates in Israeli prisons without trial or charge. Some Palestinian prisoners have even been held in administrative detention for up to eleven years.
Israel occupied East al-Quds, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip during the Six Day War in 1967. It later had to withdraw from Gaza but has been occupying the other territories since.
