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Published 06 Apr, 2024 06:37pm

Israeli forces arrest at least 45 Palestinians in last 24 hours, prisoners society says

The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society has said that many of those arrested leaving Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem after Friday prayers were worshippers, Al Jazeera reports.

Others were arrested in the occupied West Bank governorates of Hebron, Jenin, Nablus, Tubas, Ramallah and el-Bireh, Jericho, and Tulkarm, the group said, adding that three women were among those detained.

The latest arrests bring the total number of Palestinians detained by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem since October 7 to 8,080, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society, as part of what it called a “systematic arrest campaign”.

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