RAMALLAH: A woman ill with cancer was among 16 Palestinians the Israeli occupation forces detained today in the occupied West Bank, raising the total detained since the launch of the Israeli war on October 7 to 4520, according to prisoners’ groups.
The woman, identified as Faten Majed Masalmeh, 21, a resident of Gaza but currently married and lives in the West Bank, and who has cancer, was arrested at an army checkpoint south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus after getting medical treatment. She was arrested apparently because she is from Gaza even though she has been living in the West Bank for the last three years, according to her husband, who was with her when she was arrested. The soldiers would not let her even take her medicine with her, he said.
The others were detained in Bethlehem, Jericho, Tulkarm, Ramallah, Hebron, and Jerusalem governorates, said the groups.
Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA