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Wed 15 Mar 2023 9:39 pm - Jerusalem Time

The Captive Club: about 45 cases of arrest from the town of Silwad in less than a month

Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - The town of Silwad, northeast of Ramallah, is facing systematic arrest operations that have recently escalated with the escalation of the confrontation with the occupation in the town, and the martyrdom of the boy Muhammad Abdullah Hamed by the occupation bullets on the twenty-fifth of June 2022, and the arrest campaigns have prolonged Within less than a month, about 45 arrest cases, including more than 30 cases that were arrested on the 6th of July 2022, a group of them were released, while nine of them were transferred to administrative detention, and some of them are still under investigation in Ofer until now. Today, some of them have been issued with an order banning them from meeting with a lawyer.


The Palestinian Prisoners Club said in a statement today, Sunday, that the arrests were accompanied by abuse, intimidation and high violence against the detainees and their families, as part of the crime of collective punishment pursued by the Israeli occupation authorities, as a fixed policy, pointing out that the size of the loss that resulted from the vandalism that took place It affected the homes and facilities in the town, amounting to about a quarter of a million shekels (this percentage is estimated based on the accounts of the families).


The Captive Club was able to monitor testimonies of a group of families who were subjected to abuse during and after the arrest campaign that was carried out on July 6, 2022.


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The Captive Club: about 45 cases of arrest from the town of Silwad in less than a month