The Wafa news agency is reporting that Israeli forces arrested the man identified as Waqas Nofal during a raid on his home in the town of Qalqilya in the occupied West Bank.
His detention follows a night of Israeli raids across the occupied West Bank, including the city of Nablus and the village of Burqa, east of Ramallah, Wafa reported.
There has been an uptick in Israeli raids, mass detentions and killings in the occupied West Bank since the start of the war in Gaza.
According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), at least 733 Palestinians have been killed since the Hamas-led October 7 attack. Most of them were shot dead by Israeli soldiers. And the number of Palestinians in Israeli prisons has now exceeded 10,200, according to Palestinian prisoners monitoring group Addameer.
The Palestinian health ministry said the Israeli army killed four Palestinians in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, as Israel’s violence in the Palestinian territories intensifies.
The ministry updated the death toll from two earlier on Sunday, saying four people were killed “due to the occupation’s aggression on the village of Siir, Jenin district”, referring to Israel.
The Palestinian Red Crescent said earlier on Sunday that Israeli forces had been “preventing our teams from reaching the bombing site” near Siir.
“In the morning, the planes came and started bombing this area,” said Fares Irshaid, a resident of the village. “Shortly after that, the army stormed the entire area. They declared it a closed military zone.”