The Palestinian Prisoners' Club said that the number of administrative detainees in Israeli prisons reached 3,484 detainees as of the end of last January, including at least 40 children and 11 women.

The Prisoners' Club pointed out, in a statement issued this evening, Wednesday, to the significant increase in the number of administrative detainees, explaining that this number was not actually recorded even in the years of the first intifada that broke out in 1987.

The Club noted that the crime of administrative detention is the most prominent change in the level of detention operations in the West Bank, indicating that since the beginning of the comprehensive Israeli aggression against our people in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank on the seventh of last October, the Israeli authorities have issued more than 3,400 administrative detention orders (between new and renewal orders), and the month of November recorded the highest rate of issuance of administrative detention orders, amounting to 1,120 arrest orders.

The Club added that the number of administrative detainees as of the end of January reached 3,484 detainees, and the majority of those against whom the occupation issued administrative detention orders were those who were arrested after October 7, through which the occupation targeted all groups, including children, women, activists and journalists. , and representatives, noting that the number of detainees before October 7 reached approximately 1,320 detainees.

The Club explained that the number of children in administrative detention reached at least 40 children, the number of female administrative detainees reached 11, and the number of journalists who were transferred to administrative detention reached 21 journalists, including a female journalist.

The Palestinian Prisoners' Club said that the Israeli authorities use the policy of arbitrary administrative detention as a policy of oppression and control against the Palestinians, as Israel resorts to arresting Palestinians under the name of administrative detention, under the pretext of what it calls the "secret file."