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At least 10,400 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons: Report

This photo shows a view of Israel's Ofer prison in the occupied West Bank, on November 25, 2023. (By AFP)

Palestinian prisoners’ advocacy groups say at least 10,400 Palestinians are held in Israeli jails as of this month.

The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) and the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs made the announcement in a joint statement issued on Thursday.

According to the statement, 320 children and 87 women are among the detainees.

The groups noted that the number of Palestinians held under Israel's so-called administrative detention policy has also reached 3,376, including 22 women and 95 children.

Under its policy of administrative detention, the occupying regime detains Palestinians without trial or charge for up to six months; a period which can be extended for an indefinite number of times. Some prisoners have been held in administrative detention for up to 11 years.

The updated figures come while Israel continues to conceal the actual number of Palestinians detained during its ongoing war on Gaza.

The update on the number of Palestinian prisoners comes amid reports of torture and mistreatment of detainees in Israeli prisons.

Medical crimes and denial of treatment have been the primary tools for executing systematic killings of dozens of prisoners since the Israeli war began in Gaza, rights groups say.

These crimes include imposing harsh detention conditions, torturing and assaulting prisoners, deliberately causing illnesses by denying them treatment and healthcare, starving them, and turning their need for treatment into a tool of torture.

Palestinian advocacy groups have reported an alarming surge in the number of Palestinians abducted by Israeli forces in Gaza.

Thousands have been “forcibly disappeared” from the blockaded region over the past few months.

Israel launched a genocidal war on Gaza on October 7, 2023, after the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas waged the surprise Operation Al-Aqsa Storm against the occupying entity in response to the Israeli regime's decades-long campaign of bloodletting and devastation against Palestinians.

The regime’s bloody onslaught on Gaza has so far killed at least 46,006 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured more than 109,378 others. Thousands more are also missing and presumed dead under rubble.

Israel has also ramped up violence against Palestinians in the West Bank since it launched the genocidal war in Gaza, killing at least 847 Palestinians and abducting thousands of others.


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