The Palestine Center for Prisoner Studies monitored 310 arrests carried out by the Israeli occupation against Palestinians during the month of August, including 33 children and 9 women.
In its report, the Center said that the occupation authorities continued their campaigns of abuse and arrests against Palestinians during the past month, and continued their approach of carrying out frantic arrest campaigns.
The Center pointed out that more than a third of the arrest cases, 115 cases, were in Jerusalem alone, while 8 cases of arrests were monitored from Gaza, including 6 young men who crossed the separation wire and the majority of them were released, while two merchants were arrested at the Beit Hanoun “Erez” checkpoint. “.
He pointed out that the occupation forces arrested 7 journalists on the background of covering the occupation’s attacks on citizens and their property in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, and released them hours later, on the condition that they return to investigate them after two days in Kiryat Arba settlement, and after interrogation until the evening hours, they were released.
The center stated that the occupation forces continued to target Palestinian women, as 9 cases of arrests of women and girls were monitored, including the two wives of prisoners, namely, Mrs. Ghadeer Adnan Qararieh, the wife of the captive, Malik Fashafsha, after storming her house in the village of Naqdoumieh, south of Jenin, and Mrs. Hiyam Rajoub, the prisoner’s wife. Salim Rajoub from Hebron.
He pointed out that the occupation forces re-arrested the liberated prisoner "Nahil Abu Eisha" from Hebron while she participated in a protest against the occupation policies in the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron, and also arrested the girl "Nada Al-Abassi" while she was near Bab Al-Amoud, in Old Jerusalem, and the girl "Islam Mahmoud Zayed" From Al-Masyoun neighborhood in Ramallah, and the girl “Tala Younis Al-Ghoul”, after her house was raided and searched during the storming of Ras Al-Amoud neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem.
The occupation also continued during August to target minor children, as the center monitored 33 cases of arrest of minor children, all of whom are school students, the youngest of whom are the two Jerusalemite children “Mahmoud Abu Juma’a” and “Mohammed Raja’i Khweis” who are not more than 11 years old.
He pointed out that until the end of last month, 6 prisoners continued to wage an empty bowel battle against the policy of administrative detention against them, after 19 prisoners suspended their strike after reaching an agreement with the Israeli Prison Authority Administration to put an end to their detention.
The Palestine Center for Prisoner Studies pointed out that a number of prisoners´ health conditions deteriorated significantly during the past month, most notably the prisoner Nasser Al-Shawish, who suffered a heart attack as a result of medical negligence and was transferred from Gilboa Prison to the hospital urgently in an ambulance. He has been detained for 19 years and is sentenced to prison Life 4 times.
The health of the sick elderly prisoner, Muwafaq Uruq (78 years), from Nazareth, also declined, and he began to complain of greenness in his feet, constant fatigue and aches all over his body, and vision problems threatening him with blindness, in addition to having cancer in the liver and stomach. He has been detained since 2003, He is sentenced to 30 years in prison.
Meanwhile, the health of the prisoner Nasser Abu Hamid from Al-Amari camp declined and he was transferred to the hospital after the results of the tests at “Barzilai Hospital” recently revealed that he had a tumor on the lungs, and so far the nature of the tumor has not been determined. He has been detained since 2002 and is sentenced to life imprisonment.
The prisoner “Iyad Nazir Omar” from Jenin camp underwent surgery during which a brain tumor was removed in “Nahariya” hospital, and his health had recently declined and it was found that there was a (benign) tumor on the brain. directly.
The prisoner, “Mohammed Adel Daoud,” also underwent surgery in the intestines, after he was urgently transferred to “Afula” hospital. He has been detained for 34 years and has been sentenced to life imprisonment, and for several years has been suffering from a continuous deterioration in his health, as a result of a policy of medical negligence.
The center pointed out that the occupation courts continued to issue administrative decisions against the prisoners last month, as the mock occupation courts issued (90) administrative decisions between new and renewal, ranging from two to six months.
