In the first half of 2019, the Center for "Prisoners of Palestine" documented 2,600 arrests of Palestinians in the Israeli occupation.
The center said in a report on Monday that the occupying forces had arrested 410 children under the age of 18, 70 Palestinians, including minors and elderly women, and 94 cases of detention in the Gaza Strip.
The same period was reported to have seen four arrests of members of the Palestinian Legislative Council. He stressed that Israeli detentions have affected all segments of the Palestinian society.
The policy of arrests had become a daily event inherent to the Palestinian people, an instrument ofression used by the occupation to fight the Palestinians, and to influence their resistance.
According to the Human Rights Center, the first half of the year saw a rise in the list of martyrs of the captive movement to reach 219 martyrs, after the martyrdom of the two prisoners, Fares Ahmed Baroud, 51, from Gaza and wounded Omar Awni Younis (20 years old) from Qalqilya.
He said the first half of 2019 was "one of the harshest months on the captives, specifically in the Negev prison, where the occupation began to install jamming devices in the Negev and Rimon prisons."
The prisoners in section 3 of the Negev prison were subjected to a barbaric and unprepented crackdown, in which 120 prisoners were injured, some seriously and moderately.
The occupation imposed a collective isolation on the prisoners of section 3, prohibited entry and exit from the section and deprived prisoners of the visit, and imposed heavy fines of half a million shekels.
He noted that the occupation had committed another crime during the month of January 2019 to prisoners in Ofer prison, injuring more than 100 prisoners with bruises, wounds, fractures and congestion.
Since the beginning of this year, the military occupation courts have issued 432 administrative detention orders, of which 138 were new (for the first time) and 294 were renewed.
