According to Palestinian human rights organizations, the Israeli occupation forces have arrested one million Palestinians since 1967, and the number of detainees in Israeli jails is currently 5,700.
In a joint statement, the human rights organizations said that Israel had carried out 1 million arrests since 1967, while the number of detainees in the first quarter of this year was 1,600. Among the detainees were 250 children, 36 Jerusalemite children in house arrest and 5 minors held in "Shelters". In addition to 47 women and 6 deputies in the Legislative Council, and 500 administrative detainees. The Israeli occupation authorities continue to arrest 700 Palestinian patients, including 30 cases of cancer, 56 prisoners have been detained for more than 20 years continuously, 26 of the veterans (since before the 1993 Oslo agreement), the most prominent of them are Karim Younis and Maher Younis 37 years ago. Among the prisoners, 570 were sentenced to life imprisonment once or several times. Human rights organizations have documented the deaths of 218 prisoners in Israeli jails since 1967, including 73 because of torture, 63 because of medical negligence, and 7 because of the repression and direct shooting of Israeli soldiers and guards. She noted that 78 prisoners were killed by willful killing, direct liquidation and execution in the field immediately after arrest. Qadri Abu Bakr, the head of the Prisoner´s Club (semi-government), Qadura Fares, head of the High Follow-up Committee for Prisoners (non-governmental), Amin Shoman, In the governmental conference hall in the city of Ramallah, to launch the activities of Palestinian Prisoners´ Day 2019. The participants in the conference called on the Palestinian people, in their various places of presence, to participate actively in the activities scheduled for the Palestinian Prisoners´ Day, which falls on 17 April. On 17 April 1974, the Palestinian National Council approved that day as a national day to meet Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons.
