Institutions specialized in following up on prisoners’ cases said that the month of May 2021 witnessed a dangerous escalation in the repression and attacks launched by the Israeli occupation forces against the Palestinian people, specifically with the events that began in Bab al-Amud in Jerusalem two months ago. .
In a statement published today, Sunday, the prisoners´ institutions monitored widespread repression and attacks, including arrests that affected all groups, and continued to escalate, especially with the start of the Israeli aggression on Gaza, which lasted for 11 days, which prompted the Palestinian people in all their places to leave. To the streets to confront the policies of the occupation and its grave violations.
According to the follow-ups that took place during the month of May, the Israeli occupation authorities arrested 3,100 Palestinians, including 42 women and 471 children, from various regions as part of random and organized arrest campaigns.
The highest arrest campaigns were inside the Green Line, reaching about 2,000 arrests, including 291 children, and many grave violations were recorded, accompanying the massive and systematic arrests in various towns, and did not stop at the moment of arrest against detainees and their families, but continued through a series of tools And later policies, including intimidation, threats and torture, where more than 170 indictments were filed against the detainees, the most prominent of these charges was participation in demonstrations rejecting the policies of the occupation.
The occupation forces at various levels, along with the settlers, contributed to intimidating and intimidating the Palestinians, by storming their homes and destroying their property, deploying undercover forces among them, firing live and rubber bullets at them, and brutal physical assault on them.
Extensive arrest campaigns also targeted most Palestinian cities, villages and camps in the West Bank, including Jerusalem. Prisoners´ institutions recorded about 1,100 arrests, including 180 children and 42 women and girls, the highest in Jerusalem, with 677 arrests.
Among what the institutions followed: the continued pursuit of candidates for the Legislative Council elections, as the occupation arrested 6 candidates from the “Al-Quds Our Time” list, one of the electoral lists of the Legislative Council, in addition to two former members of the Legislative Council, accompanied by nightly raids on homes and searches and vandalism of families’ properties. The occupation authorities practiced their systematic methods of repression, intimidation and intimidation, extending to collective punishments for all segments of society.
The number of administrative detention orders issued reached (200) administrative detention orders, including (116) new administrative detention orders.
The prisoners and human rights institutions (the Commission for Detainees and Ex-Prisoners Affairs, the Palestinian Prisoner Club, the Addameer Foundation for Prisoner Care and Human Rights, and the Wadi Hilweh Information Center - Jerusalem) indicate in their report that the number of Palestinian prisoners and detainees in the occupation prisons reached about 5,300 until the end of May 2021 Prisoners, including 40 female prisoners, while the number of child and minor detainees in the occupation prisons reached about 250 children, including 81 children from the occupied territories in 1948 who are still detained, and the number of administrative detainees reached about 520
