4450 Palestinian prisoners, including 160 children and 32 women, are still held in Israeli jails

4450 Palestinians, including 160 children and 32 women continue to be detained by the Israeli occupation, according to the Palestinian prisoners commissions.

These commissions, which include among others the Prisoners Affairs Commission, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club, Al-Dameer organization, clarified in a document issued on Saturday marking the Palestinian Prisoners Day that since the beginning of this year until the end of March, the occupation detained 2140 Palestinians, most of them are from occupied Al-Quds and Jenin in the West Bank.

 Detentions reached the peak on April 15, when the occupation forces carried out wide-scale detention campaigns during their recent raid into Al-Aqsa Mosque which resulted in the detention of 450 Palestinians, including children.

 The prisoners commissions went on to say that 600 prisoners are currently sick, 200 of them have chronic diseases and 22 others have cancer. The most dangerous case is that of prisoner Naser Abu Hamid, whose heath condition is dangerously deteriorating because of lung cancer.    

The commissions also said that around 227 prisoners were martyred due to deliberate medical negligence by the occupation authorities, pointing out that the occupation continues to hold the dead bodies of 8 prisoners who were martyred inside the occupation’s jails.

The number of Palestinian  prisoners, who have been in Israeli jails for more than 20 years, reached 152, according to the commissions.

Hamda Mustafa