Abduction of Palestinians by Israeli occupiers on rise in occupied West Bank: Officials

Abductions and arbitrary detention of Palestinians by Israeli occupiers have increased across the occupied West Bank, particularly targeting farmers and rural communities, Palestinian officials and rights groups said Monday, Anadolu reports. Salah al-Khawaja, director of the Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission’s office in the central West Bank, told Anadolu that such incidents were often accompanied by abuse and violence. “Palestinians were being detained at makeshift checkpoints or seized during attacks on farmers and rural and Bedouin communities,” he said. Amir Daoud, the commission’s documentation official, said the repeated attacks make farmers fear for their lives and freedom when accessing their land and could discourage them from reaching their fields. “The impact of the attacks extends from the victim to the […]