Local sources said the Israeli soldiers broke into several homes across Beit Doqqo village, northwest of East al-Quds (Jerusalem), kidnapping the Palestinians late on Wednesday.
The kidnapped Palestinians were reportedly transferred to an unknown location. Some of the abducted have been previously detained by the Tel Aviv regime.
Over the recent months, several Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike have drawn global attention to the tough conditions in Israeli jails.
On February 12, acting Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas appealed to the international community to intervene in support of Palestinian prisoners who are on an open-ended hunger strike to protest their detention conditions in Israeli prisons.
“These prisoners are on hunger strike in response to the policy of administrative detention and ill-treatment by the occupying authorities,” Abbas said in reference to the Zionist regime.
The administrative detention, often implemented by the Israeli regime against the Palestinian population, is a sort of imprisonment without trial or charge, allowing regime forces to make arrests without formal charges for up to six months. However, the detention order can be renewed for indefinite periods of time.
Palestinian prisoners have been subject to human rights violations such as the use of torture during interrogations by Israeli prison authorities.