Israeli forces arrest senior Islamic Jihad member in West Bank raids

Israeli forces have arrested nearly two dozen Palestinians, among them a senior member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement, in raids across the occupied West Bank.

Palestinian Prisoner’s Media Office reported Sunday that the occupation troops had detained Khader Adnan in his hometown of Arraba near the city of Jenin.

Adnan, 44, had been arrested after Israeli forces raided his home and terrorized his family in the middle of the night, the Palestinian Wafa news agency reported.

The Islamic Jihad member has been arrested several times in recent years and served several prison sentences. He has also gone on hunger strike several times over Tel Aviv's so-called policy of administrative detention.

Other Palestinians, who were mostly young, were taken into Israeli custody in the West Bank villages of Ajjah and Bir al-Basha and the towns of Bani Na'im and Beit Fajjar.

The Israeli military frequently carries out wide-ranging arrest campaigns across the West Bank under the pretext of searching for “wanted” Palestinians.

Over the past months, Israel has ramped up attacks on Palestinian towns and cities throughout the occupied territories. As a result of these attacks, dozens of Palestinians have lost their lives and many others have been arrested.

The United Nations marked 2022 as the deadliest year for Palestinians in the West Bank in 16 years.

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