The Prisoners' Club said that the Israeli occupation escalated the arrest of women and holding them hostage, after the seventh of last October, in light of the comprehensive aggression against the Palestinian people.

The Prisoner's Club stated, in a statement today, Monday, that the number of documented cases of detention of women reached more than 60, the majority of whom were later released, after being held hostage, or released on conditions, as happened specifically in Jerusalem, and within the territories of 1948, while Others continue to be arrested on charges related to incitement, in addition to issuing administrative detention orders.

It continued that the Israeli forces used a number of crimes and abusive policies against women, by brutally storming their homes, using all types of weapons, including police dogs, in addition to threatening to kill their children and using obscene words against them. They carried out widespread sabotage and destruction of their homes. Among those arrested were former female prisoners, mothers of prisoners, university students, elderly women, and children.

The Prisoners' Club added that one of the most prominent policies used against female detainees is the crime of holding them hostage, in order to pressure their husbands or children, who are targeted by the occupation, to surrender themselves. The competent institutions have also documented many of these cases in several areas in the West Bank, where this policy was concentrated in the Governorate. Hebron witnessed the highest rate of arrests.