More than 50 Palestinians have been arrested in Israeli military raids across the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Media Office (ASRA) says, as the army’s deadly assault on the territory, in tandem with its punishing war on Gaza, escalates.Multiple raids on Thursday took place in Nablus, Qalqilya, Tubas, Hebron, Jenin, Bethlehem and Ramallah.
ASRA said children, activists and former prisoners who had been released were among those arrested. It added that raids had taken place at homes and educational institutions.
The Israeli military has also been carrying out house demolitions at a breakneck speed, disregarding international condemnation.
After months of relentless Israeli attacks on the Jenin refugee camp, some Palestinian women were allowed to briefly return, but only to quickly pack what few belongings they could, and then were forced to leave.
After applying for permission from the Israeli military, they were given 40 minutes to pack a lifetime of memories in the al-Hawashin neighbourhood of Jenin.
Nisreen Abu Zeina, a displaced woman from Jenin, said they only wanted to check on the camp and their homes.
“We pray that one day we will be back,” she told Al Jazeera. “We were searched over and over again, but we eventually managed to get to our homes that are still standing. We walked a long distance on destroyed roads, the stench was unbearable. They kept rushing us.”
Meanwhile, a Palestinian man was …
