At least 25 Palestinians have been detained by Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank in the past 24 hours, including a journalist and former prisoners, Al Jazeera reports.

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society and the Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs said in a joint statement cited by the official Wafa news agency that the Palestinians were detained during raids in Hebron, Qalqilya, Jenin, Ramallah, Nablus, Tulkarem, Tubas and Bethlehem.

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