Ramallah - Ma'an - Israeli occupation forces arrested 40 citizens from the West Bank on Sunday, including a woman and a child. The Prisoners' Authority and the Prisoners' Club said in a statement that the number of arrests in the West Bank since the beginning of the ongoing war of extermination has reached more than 11,000 cases, which included all segments of Palestinian society, in addition to the arrest of dozens of Palestinian workers and thousands from Gaza. Until now, we have not been able to accurately identify all their numbers and identities, as the Israeli occupation continues to carry out the crime of enforced disappearance against them. They explained that the ongoing and escalating arrest campaigns for 359 days have been accompanied by field executions, direct shooting prior to arrest, or threats of such, in addition to severe beatings, field investigations that have affected hundreds, the use of police dogs, and the use of citizens as human shields and hostages, in addition to the widespread a cts of vandalism that have affected homes, the confiscation of belongings, cars, money, gold jewelry and electronic devices, in addition to the demolition and bombing of homes belonging to prisoners in the occupation's prisons. It is noteworthy that these arrest campaigns come in light of the comprehensive aggression launched by the occupation against our people, as a retaliatory operation that falls within the framework of the crime of (collective punishment), as the arrest operations constituted, and still constitute, the most prominent fixed and systematic policies used by the occupation to undermine any escalating resistance against it. It is noteworthy that the data related to the cases of arrest include those who were kept in detention by the occupation, and those who were later released. Source: Maan News Agency