The Palestine Center for Prisoner Studies monitored 415 cases of detention by the Israeli occupation forces during the month of January, including 43 children and 6 women, while a Jerusalemite freed prisoner was killed as a result of his cancer during his detention in prisons.
The center said in its monthly report that the occupation authorities have escalated, since the beginning of the year 2021, the arrests and abuse against Palestinians, especially in Jerusalem, which witnessed 155 arrests, followed by Hebron with 70 cases, Jenin with 50, and Ramallah 65, while the Gaza Strip witnessed 8 arrests, including 7 young men approaching the eastern border, and another was arrested at the Beit Hanoun "Erez" checkpoint, Wala Al-Rifai, a 35-year-old resident of Maghazi, while accompanying his wife, who was ill with cancer.
The center indicated that among the detained women, Sherine Al-Araj, the aunt of the martyr Basil Al-Araj, is a resident of Jerusalem, and that is still under investigation.
He indicated that among the arrested children, three are only 9 years old, and they are from Beit Jaza, north of Jerusalem.
The liberated prisoner, Muhammad Salah El-Din (20 years), from the town of Hizma, Jerusalem district, was martyred as a result of his suffering from cancer, which he contracted during his detention at the occupation.
The martyr was arrested in April 2019 and he was sentenced to two years in prison, and after a year and two months after his arrest, his health had deteriorated dramatically, and the occupation had to transfer him to Ramla Hospital, where it was found that he had cancer in the marrow at an advanced stage as a result of not being taken care of or carrying out urgent examinations for him. , Before he was released after an exceptional 16 months of his arrest due to his declining health condition, until he was martyred 4 months after his release.
The report pointed out that 200 prisoners were infected with the Coronavirus as a result of the spread of the virus in the prisons of Raymond and the Negev, and the occupation’s failure to take measures to prevent its spread, indicating that a number of prisoners had their health condition decreased due to their infection with the Coronavirus.
The center said, that a large number of prisoners have received the vaccine against the Coronavirus, but the prisoners still live in a state of extreme anxiety and tension with the increasing danger to their lives from this dangerous and infectious virus in light of the lack of medical care, means of protection, attention from the occupation or treatment. For injured prisoners.
He pointed out that the occupation courts issued 90 administrative decisions, between new and renewal, ranging between two months to 6 during the past month, the most prominent of which was the right of the child, Amal Nakhla (17 years), from Jalazoun camp, despite his deteriorating health condition.
