Baghdad - The Prisoners’ Commission and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club announced that the Zionist forces arrested 80 Palestinians last night from the occupied West Bank, bringing the number of detainees since October 7 to more than 1,350.

In a joint statement, the Prisoners’ Association and the Prisoners’ Club said, “Last night and at dawn on Wednesday, the Israeli occupation forces launched an arrest campaign that targeted at least 80 citizens from the West Bank, including two women from Al-Quds. The arrests were concentrated in the governorates of: Hebron, Bethlehem, and Al-Quds, and the rest were distributed among the West Bank governorates.”

The statement stated that "the occupation forces have escalated their arrest campaigns since October 7, in an unprecedented manner, arresting more than 1,350 citizens from the West Bank, and this toll does not include the detained workers and Gaza detainees whose identities and enemies are not yet precisely known to the authorities and Palestinian institutions."

He pointed out that "the occupation began carrying out systematic, premeditated assassination operations against prisoners, in light of the rise of two detainees in the occupation prisons, who were arrested after the seventh of this October as part of the widespread arrest campaigns, namely Arafat Hamdan and Omar Daraghmeh, and based on the testimonies and the accounts that come from detainees who were recently released, and in light of the data that reaches the institutions, which reflects the level of crime, including assaults, death threats, and acts of abuse on several levels.”

It is noteworthy that the number of prisoners in Israeli prisons, according to available data, reached about 6,600 after the escalating arrest campaigns since October 7, including at least 50 female prisoners, and more than 1,600 administrative detainees.

Source: National Iraqi News Agency