Israel has rounded up and apprehended about 150 people across the occupied West Bank in just the past week, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society, Al Jazeera reports.
That brings the total number of Israeli arrests in the occupied West Bank during the conflict to 17,500, in what the group called a campaign of “collective punishment”.
Among those apprehended are 545 women and 1,400 children, it added.
“Arrests have been, and continue to be, the most prominent, consistent, and systematic policy employed [by Israel], not only in terms of the number of detainees, but also in terms of the level of crimes committed,” the monitor said.
