RAMALLAH _ Palestine News Network
The Israeli occupation forces have been arrested since the outbreak of the stone Uprising (the First Intifada) in 1987 to date, according to the Palestinian "Prisoners of Palestine " study (non-governmental rights).
The rights center said in a statement on Sunday that 210 thousand arrests have been registered since the beginning of the first intifada until the arrival of the Palestinian Authority, mid-1994.
He pointed out that 10,000 arrests were recorded between 1994 and the outbreak of the Al-Aqsa Intifada, 28 September 2000, and 97,000 cases during the years of the Al-Aqsa Intifada and until the October 2015 uprising in Jerusalem, which saw about 20,000 arrests.
He noted that Israeli arrests have affected all groups and segments of Palestinian society. It is clear that thousands of citizens have been detained by the occupation more than once.
"To accommodate these large numbers, the occupation opened many prisons and detention centres, most notably the Negev Desert Prison in 1988, which received tens of thousands of prisoners and witnessed the rise of a number of martyrs," he added.
"The policy of arrests has become a daily event that is inherent to the Palestinian people, a tool of repression and a means of collective punishment to fight the people, and there is barely an hour without the arrest of a number of Palestinians, and the arrests have become a human drain," the center said.
He stressed that the policy of arrests, "which has affected a million Palestinians since the occupation of the Palestinian territories in 1948," failed to achieve the objectives of the occupation by subjecting the Palestinian people and deterring them from continuing to resist.
"Palestinian prisoners of Palestine" said that the occupation authorities continued to detain 27 Palestinian prisoners since the first intifada; the prisoners of war who had been rejected by Tel Aviv in the fourth installment of the agreement to revive the negotiations between the authority and the occupation.
Among the 27 captives, nine were from the West Bank, the oldest of them being captured by Muhammad Ahmed al-Tawas from Hebron on October 6, 1986, 12 from the territories of the 48 oldest and the oldest prisoners, Karim Yusuf Yunus, and detained since January 6, 1983.
"There are also 5 prisoners from Jerusalem, including Samir Ibrahim Abu Nehmeh, who has been detained since October 20, 1986, and two prisoners from the Gaza Strip, including Faris Ahmed Baroud since March 23, 1991," he said.
During the stone uprising, the captive movement provided 43 martyrs, 23 of whom were martyred as a result of torture, 11 as a result of intentional medical negligence and 2 as a result of direct shootings, and 7 were martyred as a result of intentional homicide in cold blood after arrest. "
