ISRAELI OCCUPIED WEST BANK, 29 Nov. - (ANA) - A Palestinian rights organisation says Israeli forces are detaining, interrogating and mistreating hundreds of Palestinians across the occupied West Bank every week, far beyond the numbers Israel publicly reports.

 

The Palestinian Prisoners Society said in a statement on Friday that Israeli troops had carried out widespread detentions during raids, subjecting people to field interrogations, intimidation and abuse.

 

Most detainees are released after hours or days, meaning they never appear in the army's official arrest figures.

 

Emani Serahine, a spokesperson for the group, said Israel only acknowledges Palestinians it transfers to prisons or formal detention centres, while ignoring the many whose homes were stormed, belongings destroyed, or money seized before they were held briefly and released.

 

She said the scale of recent operations underscores the gap. During the latest raid on Tubas on 26 November, the group documented 162 detentions in the city alone, despite Israeli claims of only "dozens".

 

Serahine added that soldiers routinely beat and threaten Palestinians during interrogations and that raids often involve vandalism and theft.

 

The Israeli army has been carrying out extensive raids across the northern West Bank.

 

In Tubas, it dropped leaflets in Arabic warning residents that their area had "become a nest of terror" and threatening the same fate as Jenin and Tulkarem, where more than 42,000 Palestinians were forcibly displaced as part of recent operations.

 

Large sections of both camps have been demolished, and residents are still barred from returning.    - (ANA) -

 

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