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Israel arrested 14,000 Palestinians since 2015

October 2, 2017 at 2:42 pm

Israeli soldiers can be seen arresting Palestinians in Nablus, West Bank [Ayman Ameen/Apaimages]

Israeli occupation forces have arrested 14,000 Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territories since the start of the Jerusalem Intifada in October 2015, according to a rights group.

According to figures released by the Palestinian Prisoners Centre for Studies, of the 14,000 detained Palestinians, 3,100 were minors, 437 were women and 450 were online activists.

Almost all the detainees were subjected to psychological or physical torture in Israeli detention and investigation centres in total violation of international laws and conventions, the organisation added.

The rise in Israeli arrests intensified after the Jerusalem Intifada, according to the source.

Some 2,860 administrative detention orders were issued over the same period, from 1 October 2015, 17 of which were issued against female detainees while 42 others targeted minors.

Read: Israel issued 50 administrative detention orders in September

Some 65 young girls were among the female detainees, six of them were shot with live munition during their arrest.

Sixteen Palestinian MPs were also detained over the reported period, ten of them are still being held in Israeli jails.

The figures also documented the arrest of 150 elderly people, 39 academics, 240 patients and disabled people and 115 journalists.

Over the past two years, six prisoners died, raising the number of Palestinian detainees who have lost their lives in Israeli jails to 212.