Ramallah – Ma’an – The Palestinian Prisoner’s Club said that the limited release operations that took place of a group of administrative detainees during the last period from the Israeli occupation prisons, are matched by continuous daily arrest campaigns, in addition to the occupation’s intelligence service continuing to issue more administrative detention orders under the pretext of the presence of… (Secret file).
The club added in a statement on Thursday that the number of prisoners and detainees in the occupation prisons is constantly increasing, and that the limited releases that took place did not constitute any change in the number of prisoners, including the number of administrative detainees, as the issue of administrative detainees constituted the most prominent issue that left significant changes. It is significant and historic in terms of the issue of prisoners, as the occupation targeted the vast majority of detainees from the West Bank through this policy.
The Prisoner Club explained that al
though the escalation in the number of administrative detainees increased in intensity after the seventh of October , the escalation was not actually linked to this date. It began noticeably since April 2022 , after the number of administrative detainees remained… It ranges between 400-500 detainees, with the exception of the period following the ‘popular uprising’ in 2015, when their number at that time reached more than 700. The number of administrative detainees in April 2022 reached 600 detainees, and has continued to rise until today, reaching To the historically highest numbers, based on the data available to the relevant institutions.
The number of administrative detainees as of the beginning of this April is more than (3,660) administrative detainees, including (22) women and more than (40) children.
He pointed out that the Israeli occupation forces administratively arrested thousands of Palestinian citizens after October 7 , and targeted all groups, including: university students, journalists, wo
men, former members of the Legislative Council, human rights activists, workers, lawyers, mothers, and detainees. Former workers, merchants, and children, knowing that the occupation regime used administrative detention as a tool for repression, control, intimidation, and undermining any escalating state of struggle, and it emerged specifically in the years of uprisings and popular uprisings.
The Prisoner’s Club considered the issue of administrative detention to be the most serious issue pursued by the occupation authorities against our people, in addition to a long list of crimes, policies, grave violations and torture operations that have escalated in light of aggression and genocide.
The Prisoner’s Club stressed that the date after October 7 , and the start of the war of extermination in Gaza, was not the beginning of the occupation’s aggression against prisoners and the escalation in arrest and administrative detention campaigns, but rather all of these crimes and violations constituted an extension of
systematic and continuous crimes carried out by the occupation over the course of decades. For a long time, the main and current change is only in the intensity of these crimes and the escalation of retaliatory policies and measures against prisoners, detainees and their families.
Source: Maan News Agency
