According to the statement, the prisoners were arrested from their homes or while passing through military checkpoints where some of them had been forced to surrender themselves under pressure after members of their families were held as hostages.

More than 40 people were rounded up in different towns and villages in the Ramallah area, mainly from the towns of Aroura and Rantis, 27 others were detained in the Bethlehem governorate, one of them 15 years of age detained with his father, 26 detained in the Hebron district, most of them from Deir Samet, and 13 in the Nablus district, among others....