Prisoners of Palestine Center: 119 thousand arrests since Al-Aqsa Intifada

Prisoners of Palestine Center: 119 thousand arrests since Al-Aqsa Intifada

-Aqsa Intifada on September 28, 2000, the Prisoners of Palestine Center for Studies monitored 119,000 arrests carried out by the Israeli occupation authorities during those years, including 2070. A woman and a girl, 16490 children, and 68 deputies in the Legislative Council, while the Israeli courts issued more than 29821 administrative detention orders.

PCHR´s spokesman, Riad Al-Ashqar, explained that when the Al-Aqsa Intifada broke out, only 700 prisoners were imprisoned in the Israeli jails. The number of prisoners in 2004 reached 12 thousand prisoners, and then gradually decreased, until the number reached at present (5700) prisoners, including (40) prisoners, (220) children, and (7) deputies in the Legislative Council.

Arrest of women

Al-Ashqar revealed that the occupation has not exempted women from arrest campaigns since the outbreak of the Al-Aqsa Intifada, while during the last four years it has stepped up targeting women by killing, arresting and summoning. , Patients, elderly women, academies, wives of martyrs and prisoners.

The Israeli occupation forces continue to detain 40 prisoners inside the prison under harsh and tragic conditions. .

During the Al-Aqsa Intifada, four female prisoners were born in prisons. In addition, the occupation imposed many harsh and deterrent courts against the prisoners, which amounted to 16 years for some of them.

Arrest of children

Al-Ashqar said that during the years of the Intifada the occupation kidnapped more than 16490 children under the age of eighteen, dozens of them were shot and wounded before arrest and transferred to interrogation and prisons in harsh conditions, and were interrogated before treatment.

He added that at the outbreak of the Al-Aqsa Intifada, there were no children in Israeli jails, whereas the number of children now in custody reached 220 children in Ofer and Megiddo Prison. Abuse, deprives them of all their legitimate rights, and pressures them to work with the intelligence services.

The Israeli occupation has also escalated in recent years from the issuance of retaliatory verdicts against children, which reached life imprisonment, without regard to their age.

Abduction of deputies

Al-Ashqar pointed out that the period of Al-Aqsa Intifada was characterized by the abduction of a large number of members of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) who enjoy parliamentary immunity. While the occupation released most of the deputies after serving their sentences in prisons that ranged from 30 to 50 months, some of them were abducted several times and imposed administrative detention. The occupation still abducts (7) deputies, 5 of whom are under administrative detention. , And two were sentenced s Exponential and high.

Martyrs of the captive movement

Al-Ashqar pointed out that during the Al-Aqsa Intifada, 98 martyrs of the captive movement have risen. Amin Sayeh "from Nablus after four years of detention due to deliberate medical negligence and was suffering from cancer.

Nassar Majed Taqatqa, 31, from Bethlehem, was beaten by torture and medical negligence. In the prisons of the occupation.

Al-Ashqar explained that 34 were martyred as a result of deliberate medical negligence, while 6 were martyred due to violent and cruel torture, and another martyred as a result of live and direct fire during clashes with the administration in the Negev Prison. The martyr Rasim Suleiman Ghanimat from Ramallah was burnt to death in 2005 after a fire broke out in Megiddo prison as a result of a short circuit.

Administrative decisions

Al-Ashqar pointed out that during the years of the Al-Aqsa Intifada, the moot courts issued more than (29821) administrative detention orders between new decisions and renewing administrative detention arbitrarily without clear charges. The military prosecution and the judge who issued the administrative order, and dozens of prisoners have spent many years of their lives behind bars under renewed administrative detention for several times up to eight times for some prisoners.

He stressed that during the years of the Al-Aqsa Intifada, the Israeli courts handed down more than 500 life sentences for prisoners accused of carrying out attacks that led to the deaths of soldiers or settlers.

On the nineteenth anniversary of the Al-Aqsa Intifada, the Center for the Prisoners of Palestine renewed its call to the factions of the national and Islamic action and the people of our people to the need to unify efforts and put the issue of prisoners on the ladder of priorities, and strive by all means and means to release all prisoners from the occupation prisons, and bleaching the prisons of all prisoners Hamas must adhere to its conditions for the release of prisoners in exchange for the cards it has obtained after the 2014 aggression.