The Palestinian Prisoners' Club stated that “the Israeli occupation forces continued their arrest campaigns in the West Bank at an unprecedented pace, in light of the ongoing genocide against the Gaza Strip, as the occupation forces have arrested at least 26 citizens from the West Bank since yesterday evening until this morning, including siblings and former prisoners.”

The Prisoners' Authority and the Palestinian Prisoners' Club added in a joint statement today, Wednesday, that the number of arrests in the West Bank since October 7 has reached about 10,000 cases, which included all segments of Palestinian society.

The two Palestinian institutions pointed out that dozens of Palestinian workers have been arrested, as well as thousands from Gaza, adding: “So far we have not been able to accurately identify their numbers and identities, as the Israeli occupation continues to commit the crime of enforced disappearance against them.”

They mentioned that the ongoing and escalating arrest campaigns over the past ten months have been accompanied by field executions, direct gunfire prior to arrests, or threats thereof, in addition to severe beating, and field investigations that have targeted hundreds, as well as the use of police dogs, and using citizens as human shields and hostages, in addition to widespread destruction that has affected homes, confiscation of belongings and cars, money, gold jewelry, and electronic devices, as well as the demolition and blowing up of homes belonging to prisoners in the occupation's jails.

They noted that “these arrest campaigns come in the context of the comprehensive aggression being waged by the occupation against the Palestinian people, as a retaliatory operation that falls within the framework of the crime of (collective punishment), where the arrest operations have constituted, and still represent, the most prominent fixed and systematic policies used by the occupation to undermine any rising resistance against it.”