The Palestinian Prisoners' Club said that the Israeli occupation continues to carry out arrest campaigns in the West Bank, which are the highest in years compared to the level of arrests and the period during which the arrest campaigns were carried out.
The club explained in a statement issued today, Sunday, that the number of arrests since the start of the comprehensive Israeli occupation aggression against our people on the seventh of October this year amounted to about 470 arrests from the West Bank, including all categories, in addition to detained workers inside the West Bank. The 1948 territories and Gaza, whose exact numbers are not known until today.
She indicated that the arrests were concentrated in the Hebron Governorate, where the highest rate was recorded.
The Prisoners' Club added that the occupation forces launched a massive arrest campaign last night and Sunday dawn, targeting at least 65 citizens, and the arrests were distributed in most of the governorates of the West Bank, including occupied Jerusalem.
The Prisoner's Club stated that the testimonies we receive from the families of detainees reflect the level of brutality used by the occupation forces during arrest operations against detainees and their families, in addition to threats that amounted to death threats, in addition to the severe beatings that affected the majority of detainees, and the widespread acts of sabotage and destruction. For homes.
He stressed that the current escalation of arrests is accompanied by great complications and difficulties in following up on detainees in investigation and detention centers, as a result of a series of measures imposed by the occupation on the work of legal teams, and specifically procrastination in giving answers about the fate of detainees and their places of detention, specifically after the occupation activated the military order that includes: Increasing the first extension period, as well as depriving detainees of meeting with a lawyer for a minimum period of two days.
The Prisoner's Club directed all families of detainees in the West Bank to communicate with the institutions specialized in prisoners' affairs, in an attempt to monitor and follow up on the crimes and violations carried out against detainees and their families, and to follow up on them later, in light of the great challenges facing the institutions.
It is noteworthy that since the beginning of this year, arrests have reached approximately (6,000) cases.
