Israel detains dozens of Palestinian men in the West Bank

Israeli soldiers marched dozens of Palestinian men in single file through the city of Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank.

Israeli soldiers marched dozens of Palestinian men in single file through the city of Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, each with their hands placed on the shoulders of the person in front of them.

Flanked by soldiers and and military vehicles, the men appeared to be detained amid Israeli raids that followed what the Israeli military said was an explosion that injured two Israeli soldiers.

The operation came the same day that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited a large Israeli West Bank settlement, and declared in video published by his office: "This place is ours.”

On Thursday, Netanyahu signed an agreement to push ahead with Israel's widely criticized "E1" settlement plan, which would effectively split the territory in two, further fracturing what Palestinians envision as a future state, already divided between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

“We said that there will not be a Palestinian state — and indeed there will be no Palestinian state," Netanyahu said at Ma’ale Adumim Israeli settlement, where new housing units would be added under the plan.