Breaking video: over 1500 Palestinian men taken hostage by Israel in West Bank raids

In mass raids of homes, shops, factories, and even bystanders on the streets since noon today (11 Sep) and continuing at the time of writing, Israeli occupation forces have taken more than 1,500 Palestinians hostage in a mass arrest campaign targeting civilians in the West Bank city of Tulkarm.

The scale of the illegal arbitrary detention of ordinary Palestinians can be sensed from this clip of a column of apparently blindfolded and shackled hostages being marched along by occupation troops, which has emerged this evening:

Well over 10,000 Palestinians are imprisoned in Israel, many under severe conditions including torture, sexual torture, rape and deliberate starvation. Thousands have not been charged with any crime. Many are children.

The new wave of detentions came on the same day that Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu vowed publicly that there will never be a Palestinian state, as he rubber-stamped Israel’s grossly illegal plan to annex large portions of the occupied West Bank.

The kidnappings continued on Friday morning 12 Sep: