Middle East Monitor, 13 décembre 2024. Israeli occupying forces have arrested 12,100 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, since launching the war on Gaza on October 7, 2023, a prisoners' rights group said.
The Palestinian Prisoners' Club stressed that this figure does not include Palestinians detained in Gaza, who are estimated to number in the thousands.
According to the rights group, the detainees included more than 440 women and 795 children, noting that a majority of the arrests took place in Jerusalem and Hebron governorates.
The occupying forces also arrested 141 journalists, of whom 59 remain in detention, including five women and 33 journalists from Gaza.
More than 10,000 administrative detention orders were issued during this period.
The ongoing arrest campaigns are accompanied by an escalation of abuse and violent beatings, verbal and physical threats against detainees and their families, sabotage and destruction of citizens' homes, as well as theft of personal vehicles, cash and jewelry, the organization added.
Detainees were also used as human shields, while their families were held hostage for periods.
In addition to the arrest campaigns, the Prisoners' Club said that occupying forces carried out executions on the ground, including against family members of prisoners.
Israel continues to hold the bodies of 47 Palestinian prisoners who died in its prisons since the start of the war in Gaza.
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