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Israel has escalated its campaign of arrests and violations against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, including the city of East Jerusalem, coinciding with the imposition of “retaliatory” measures against the prisoners, since the launch of the operation Al-Aqsa flood On October 7 last.
According to the latest official statistics issued by the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club, the Israeli authorities have arrested more than 2,920 Palestinians since October 7, while the number of prisoners in prisons reached about 7,000.
The Prisoners’ Club points out that the data remain approximate and change as a result of the ongoing arrest campaigns.
The arrest campaign is accompanied by widespread harassment, severe beatings, field investigations, and threats against detainees and their families, in addition to widespread sabotage and destruction of citizens’ homes, and intimidation and threats against citizens.
Facts and figures
According to the latest statistics of the Prisoner Club, the number of Palestinian prisoners has reached more than 7 thousand, including more than 200 children, 78 adults, and hundreds of sick and wounded, some of whom need urgent medical intervention.
Amani Farajneh, the media official at the Prisoner’s Club, says that until now there is no information about the number of detained workers in the Gaza Strip after October 7, nor about those who were arrested during the military operations in Gaza.
While 100 women were confirmed to have been arrested in the West Bank and Jerusalem since October 7, according to the Prisoner’s Club, no accurate data was available about the number of arrests among children. However, the Addameer Foundation for Human Rights (a Palestinian non-governmental organization) said, in a statement yesterday, Sunday, that Israel had arrested 200 children in the aforementioned period.
40 journalists were also arrested, 30 of whom were kept in detention, including wounded journalist Moaz Amarneh, who lost his eye as a result of being hit by an Israeli bullet in 2019, and journalist Mervat Al-Azza, in addition to journalist Somaya Jawabra, who is subject to house arrest.
Administrative detention orders after October 7 amounted to 1,464 new and renewed orders.
For its part, the Palestine Liberation Organization’s Commission for Prisoners’ and Ex-Prisoners’ Affairs said that the Israeli prison administration has imposed a number of additional punitive measures since the start of the war on Gaza, as part of the collective punishment policy pursued by the Israeli occupation.
She pointed out that the penalties and restrictions imposed on prisoners in prisons are:
1- Keeping the windows of the rooms open 24 hours a day when it is extremely cold, especially at night, and removing blankets and clothes from the prisoners.
2- Doctors have not visited the departments for more than 40 days, despite the fact that there are critical and chronic disease cases that need constant follow-up, and withholding medications from 70% of patients, and being limited to painkillers in very limited quantities.
3- The food has become very bad and immature, its smell and taste have become very unpleasant, and the quantities are insufficient.
4- Not allowing prisoners to go out to Al-Fura Square (Al-Fasha).
5- Withdrawal of all electrical appliances, personal belongings, clothes, blankets, and pillows.
6- Cut off electricity daily from six in the evening until six in the morning.
7- The rooms are very crowded, and some prisoners sleep on the floor.
8- The most difficult point is the repeated attacks on prisoners in the rooms for the slightest reason and even for no reason, and the repeated raids into the inspection and repression units in a brutal and barbaric manner.
9- Deprivation of the canteen (grocery store).
10- Denial of visits from lawyers and family.
11- Prisoners are not allowed to drink potable water, and water is filled from the bathroom tap.
12- It is forbidden to own clothes, with the exception of only one change of clothes and one underwear. If they get dirty, the prisoner is forced to wash them and wait until they dry in order to wear them again.
