Palestinian human rights organizations reported on Wednesday that Israel has arrested more than 6,000 Palestinians in the West Bank and the occupied interior since October 7.
The institutions of the Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners’ Commission, the Prisoners’ Club, and the Addameer Foundation said in a joint statement that the total number of arrests among women amounted to more than 200, and this statistic includes women who were arrested from the occupied territories in 1948, and the number of arrests among children reached more than 355 by the end of the year. Last December.
Regarding the number of journalists who were arrested during this period, the institutions said that the number reached 50 journalists, of whom 35 remained in detention, and 20 of them were transferred to administrative detention (without charge).
Israel uses an old British law that allows it to detain Palestinians without trial for a period ranging between 3 and 6 months, under the pretext of the existence of a secret file on the detainee.
The statement stated that the number of administrative detention orders after October 7 reached more than 2,855 orders, including new orders and renewal orders.
He added that the data related to arrest cases includes those whom the occupation kept detaining them, and those who were later released, but it does not include cases of arrest from Gaza, because the occupation refuses to this day to disclose them, and is carrying out the crime of enforced disappearance against them.
The statement by Palestinian human rights institutions also confirmed that 7 Palestinian prisoners were martyred inside Israeli prisons since October 7.
For its part, the National Campaign to Recover the Bodies of Martyrs explained – earlier – that the Israeli authorities are detaining 450 Palestinian bodies in occupation cemeteries and morgues, including 256 martyrs in the Numbers Cemetery, and 194 martyrs since the return of the detention policy in 2015.
The campaign indicated that 18 of the detained bodies belong to prisoners who died inside occupation prisons, 21 children under the age of 18 and 5 women, and 52 bodies from the Gaza Strip, before October 7.
Since the outbreak of the devastating war on the Gaza Strip on October 7, the Israeli army has intensified its military operations and raids and arrest campaigns in the West Bank and the occupied Palestinian interior, and increased the pace of incursions and raids into cities, towns and camps, which resulted in Palestinian martyrs and wounded.