Israeli army arrests 12 Palestinians in occupied West Bank, prisoner groups say

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The people arrested overnight and this morning include former prisoners and two children, according to a statement by the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society, Al Jazeera reports.

Their joint statement said the arrests took place across the occupied governorates of Hebron, Nablus, Ramallah, Bethlehem and East Jerusalem.

The number of arrests of Palestinians by Israeli forces in the West Bank and East Jerusalem since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza has surpassed 12,100, the report said.

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