The Palestinian Prisoners Studies Center announced that it has monitored (1500) cases of detention of Palestinians from all segments and groups since the beginning of this year, including 35 women and 240 children.
The media spokesman for the research center, Riyad Al-Ashqar, said that the arrests became a daily phenomenon that the occupation uses as a tool of oppression and collective punishment to fight the Palestinian people. It is severe that arrests continue in these special circumstances, in which the governments of the world are going to release prisoners, including the occupation, which has released hundreds of Jewish prisoners in a clear racist policy where he refused to release Palestinian prisoners, and continues to arrest more.
Al-Ashqar stated that all detainees were subjected to one or more forms of physical or psychological torture, moral abuse and degrading humiliation, especially children, which constitutes a serious violation of the rules of international humanitarian law and international human rights law, and some of them were subjected to intentional and close fire. Before being arrested without posing a threat to the occupation.
And Al-Ashqar indicated that more than a third of the arrests took place in the city of Jerusalem and exceeded 600 cases of arrest, whereby the occupation is targeting Jerusalemites continuously, especially in the last two months on the pretext of carrying out meetings and health activities under Corona, and providing assistance to the residents as a result of the conditions that are arranged on stone in homes.
Al-Ashqar indicated that the occupation targets the arrest of all components of the Palestinian people, including women and children. The number of arrests between minors since the beginning of the year reached 240, the youngest of whom is the child "Majid Ali Abu Saada", 7 years old, from Jayyus, east of Qalqilya.
While the cases of detention among the women reached 35 cases, among them Mrs. "Suzan Al-Mobaed" (50) from Abu Dis, east of Jerusalem, and accused her of trying to carry out a stabbing process, the occupation courts also issued during this period 360 administrative detention decisions.
While the special units stormed prisons and sections (40) times since the beginning of the year, during which the prisoners were assaulted, their property was confiscated and various penalties imposed against them, most notably the storming of Section 12 of Ofer Prison and assaulting the prisoners after the release of the prisoner "Rabee ´Asfour" (31 years) from Ramallah One of the prisoners was stabbed and injured.
During the year, the captive "Nour Rashad Al-Barghouti" (23 years), from the village of Aboud, Ramallah district, rose as a martyr in the Negev Prison, as a result of the delay in his transfer to the hospital, after 4 years of his arrest, where he was subjected to severe fainting while in the bathroom in section 25 of the prison. The Negev desert, and the occupation refused to remove it at the beginning, and after the prisoners knocked on the doors and enlargement, the occupation forced him to transfer him to the hospital, but he died hours later as a result of negligence and delay in transferring him.
