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PALESTINE

Fri 03 Nov 2023 1:10 pm - Jerusalem Time

Palestinian Prisoners' Institutions: 2,070 arrests and 1,034 administrative detention orders in October

Prisoners' institutions reviewed the most prominent data about the arrest operations carried out by the Israeli occupation army, and the reality of the detainees in light of the comprehensive aggression and ongoing genocide against our people.


The institutions (the Prisoners’ Affairs Authority, the Prisoner’s Club, the Addameer Foundation for Prisoner Care and Human Rights, and the Wadi Hilweh Center - Jerusalem) said in a report, today, Friday, that they documented 2,070 cases of arrest in the West Bank, including Jerusalem, during the month of October. Among them are 145 children and more than 55 women.


They added that the most prominent change in the data of detainees is the significant escalation in the crime of administrative detention, as the occupation issued 1,034 administrative detention orders during October, including 904 new orders and 130 renewal orders.


The occupation escalated its arrest campaigns after the seventh of last October, and arrests cases reached 1,760 by the end of the month, including all categories, including 17 journalists, while the arrest campaigns were concentrated in Hebron Governorate and its towns, while arrests there reached 500, followed by Jerusalem. In which more than 400 arrests were recorded, the arrests in the West Bank that were carried out during the past month constitute the highest percentage since the years of the Al-Aqsa Intifada.


The prisoner institutions explained that the data on arrest cases included everyone who was arrested during this period, whether the occupation kept them detained and was transferred to detention centers later, or those who were released after a short period of arrest. It also includes those who were arrested in an organized manner from their homes. , or through military checkpoints, or after summonses, as well as those of the family who were arrested as hostages, to pressure one of its members to surrender himself.


According to data, the number of detainees in the occupation prisons by the end of October reached about 7,000 detainees, including 62 female detainees, while accurate numbers are not available for child detainees, while the number of detainees from the Gaza Strip reached 105.


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Palestinian Prisoners' Institutions: 2,070 arrests and 1,034 administrative detention orders in October