Israeli forces escalating arrest campaigns against children: Prisoner’s group

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The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society has said in a statement on Telegram that the Israeli forces are escalating arrest campaigns against Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank since the eruption of Israel’s bombardment on Gaza, Al Jazeera reports.

It said at least seven children, including two brothers, were arrested in the past 24 hours in the West Bank and Israel’s military court extended the detention of three children from the town of Beit Ummar near the city of Hebron.

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