Since October 7, Israel has arrested more than 5,000 people, mostly from Gaza, Palestinian officials say.

Ramallah, occupied West Bank – Israel has arrested so many Palestinians in the two weeks since the start of its bombardment of the besieged Gaza Strip that it has doubled the number of Palestinians in its custody.

There were about 5,200 Palestinians in Israeli prisons prior to October 7 when the Palestinian armed resistance group Hamas launched an attack on Israel, which responded almost immediately with a relentless bombing campaign.

    • medgremlin@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      1 year ago

      These aren’t arrests of Hamas. These arrests are happening in the West Bank as part of the massive settler expansion that has been going on in the background.

    • Quokka@quokk.auEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Over the past two weeks, according to officials and rights groups, Israel has arrested some 4,000 labourers from Gaza who were working in Israel and is holding them in military bases.

      Yeah 4,000 workers is totally Hamas!