Israeli forces carry out arrests and raids across Hebron

Israeli forces carry out arrests and raids across Hebron Israeli occupation soldiers arrested three Palestinians and carried out home raids across the Hebron district on Friday, extending a pattern of routine military incursions in the occupied West Bank. Security sources told the Palestinian news agency Wafa that soldiers detained Fawzi Salim Abu Subaih during a raid in the Umm al-Daliyah area of Hebron. Forces also arrested Ahmed Yasser al-Masalmeh from the town of Deir Samet while he was passing through the “Container” military checkpoint, northeast of Bethlehem. In a separate operation, troops stormed the town of al-Samou’, south of Hebron, where they raided and searched a family home before arresting Ibrahim Younis al-Salamin. Israeli forces also pushed into the towns of Dura and Halhul, breaking into and searching several homes. No further arrests were reported, though residents once again faced intimidation and disruption as soldiers moved through residential areas. Such raids and checkpoint arrests form part of Israel’s daily enforcement of military control over Palestinian life in the occupied West Bank, carried out without due process and in violation of international law.