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by IMEMC News
June 11, 2025

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) reported that Israeli occupation forces abducted around 150 Palestinian citizens, including children, women, and former detainees in several parts of the occupied West Bank, in two days.

In its statement, PPS noted that the occupation continues to escalate abductions across the occupied West Bank, with a focus on Hebron, Jenin, Bethlehem, and Nablus.

Nablus, in particular, witnessed an incursion that lasted around 24 hours, during which widespread abductions and field interrogations took place.

The PPS emphasized that these abductions occur amid the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza.

The intensified and escalating invasions are accompanied by field executions and the destruction of dozens of homes, especially in Jenin and Tulkarem, which have been subjected to continuous aggression since the beginning of the year.

Alongside this, the occupation has escalated field interrogations, often involving brutal assaults, mistreatment, and holding civilians as hostages.

Since the start of the genocide, approximately 17,500 Palestinians have been abducted in the West Bank alone, including 545 women and around 1,400 children.

These figures include those who remain in captivity as well as those who were later released. This does not account for the number of abductions in Gaza, which is estimated to be in the thousands.

The PPS further highlighted that these abductions serve as retaliatory measures within the framework of the illegal collective punishment policies, in violation of International Law and all related treaties.

Systematic and widespread abductions have long been a fundamental policy of the occupation, not just in terms of the sheer numbers of those taken, but also in the severity of the violations committed against them.

The Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs stated that since October 7, Israeli forces have systematically abducted around 440 Palestinian children as part of their punitive mass detention campaigns against the Palestinians.

Also on Wednesday, Israeli soldiers injured several Palestinian schoolchildren and chased many others in the al-Khader town, south of Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank.

On Wednesday at dawn, Israeli soldiers invaded various communities across the occupied West Bank, stormed and violently searched scores of homes before abducting dozens of Palestinians, including children, a father and his son, and siblings.

Among the abducted Palestinians at least twenty-two Palestinians, including siblings and children, in addition to a wounded young man.

On Tuesday, Israeli forces killed a former prisoner, Rayeq Abdul Rahman Sadiq Basharat, 47, and injured a paramedic who was attempting to reach the slain man, in the town of Tammun, south of Tubas in the northeastern part of the occupied West Bank.

On Tuesday, Israeli forces killed a former prisoner and injured a paramedic who was attempting to reach the slain man, in the town of Tammun, south of Tubas in the northeastern part of the occupied West Bank.

According to the Shireen Observatory, Israeli forces shot and killed the former prisoner, Rayeq Abdul Rahman Sadiq Basharat, 47, before confiscating his body.

Also on Tuesday, Israeli soldiers killed two Palestinian siblings, injured dozens of citizens, and abducted many others during a military incursion into the northern West Bank city of Nablus.

The Palestinian Health Ministry announced that the General Authority of Civil Affairs informed them of the death of the brothers, Nidal Mahdi Ahmad Amira, 40 and Khaled Mahdi Ahmad Amira, 35.

Since the beginning of the year, Israeli forces have killed 154 Palestinian citizens in the occupied West Bank, including 27 children and 5 women.

Occupation forces have killed 57 Palestinians in Jenin, 28 in Nablus, 26 in Tubas, 14 in Tulkarem, 7 in Hebron, 5 in Bethlehem, 5 in Ramallah, 4 in Jerusalem, 4 in Qalqilia, 3 in Salfit, and 1 in Jericho.