Israeli army arrests 15 more Palestinians in West Bank raids

The Israeli army detained 15 more Palestinians in military raids in the occupied West Bank, prisoners’ affairs groups said on Thursday.

Former prisoners were among the detainees in the raids that targeted Hebron, Bethlehem, Qalqilya, East Jerusalem and Ramallah, the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner Society said in a joint statement.

According to the statement, Israeli forces held and interrogated 50 Palestinian residents in Hebron before releasing them.

The new arrests brought the number of Palestinians detained by the Israeli army in the West Bank since October 2023 to over 14,300, including those who were released after being arrested, according to Palestinian figures.

The figure does not include those arrested from the Gaza Strip, whose numbers are estimated to be in the thousands.