17th of April,,, the national day of supporting detainees
One million detention cases among Palestinians since 1967
The occupation authorities arrest (1600) Palestinians through the first quarter of 2019
Ramallah: conferees announce launching the activities of the Palestinian Prisoner's Day
The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees' Affairs, the Palestinian Society Prisoner's Club and the Supreme Commission of Detainees' Affairs called on the Palestinian people in various locations to participate actively in the activities scheduled for the Palestinian Prisoners' Day, corresponding April, 17 of each year.
This came in a news conference held by the head of the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees' Affairs Qadri Abu Baker,  the head of  the Palestinian Society Prisoner's Club Qaddura Fares and the head of Supreme Commission of Detainees' Affairs Amin Shouman to launch the activities of Palestinian Prisoner's Day of 2019. The conferees gave a presentation on the latest developments and the difficult situation experienced by the captive movement.
The Palestinian Prisoner's Day 2019
 The national and international day of supporting the Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails corresponds April 17 of each year, which was approved by the Palestinian National Counsel in honor of martyrs of the Captive Movement and detainees in Israeli jails to support them and their legitimate right to freedom.

Detainees' statistics until the end of March 2019
•    1.000.000 Palestinians have experienced detention since 1967
•    5700 are currently held in Israeli jails include:
•    250 child
•    36 minors from Jerusalem under house detention, and 5 in housing centers
•    47 females
•    6 representatives
•    500 administrative detainees
•    700 sick detainees arrested since more than 20 years
•    26 senior detainees arrested before the Oslo Accord, such as Maher Younes and Kareem Younes who were arrested since 37 years
•    570 detainees are sentenced to life imprisonment
•    218 martyrs from the Captive Movement have martyred since 1967 including: 73 detainees who martyred due to torture, 63 martyred due to medical negligence, 7 shot dead directly by soldiers and 78 martyred due to execution after being detained.
Occupation authorities arrested 1600 Palestinians during the first quarter of 2019
Since the beginning of 2019, the Israeli occupation authorities arrested 1600 Palestinians. The majority of them are from Jerusalem, including 230 minors and 40 females.
The Israeli occupation authorities resort to many policies and procedures during the process of detention, such as using excessive force during the arrests and extrajudicial executions, as well as the policy of collective punishment. This is what happened to Al-Barghouthi family from Ramallah, where the Israeli army has executed Saleh Barghouthi after arresting him on December 2018, and arrested 40 members of his family, including his father, mother, siblings and cousins. They broke into their house and opened fire inside and outside the house, wounding 3 citizens with live bullets and detaining 100 persons inside the house.
Moreover, Israeli authorities continued to arrest members of the Legislative Counsel, defenders of human rights, journalists, activists on Facebook, females and minors.
The first quarter of 2019 is the worst on detainees
Detainees' conditions in interrogation centers:
The administration of prisons carried out its suppressive policies aiming at destroying the Palestinian detainees and degrading their dignity. The interrogation is the first step of these policies using physical and psychological torture, starting from the first moment of detention. 95% of detainees have experienced detention.
A case in point is the detainee Asem Barghouthi, 33, who is arrested since 8/1/2019. He was subjected to cruel investigation which lasted for 14 days, by 20 hours per day. He was deprived of sleeping and prevented from meeting his lawyer for 22 days.
Another case in point is the detainee Zeyad Shalaldeh, 44, who was arrested with his son at the same day. He was exposed to torture during his detention, and he was injured all over his body. In addition, occupation forces used dogs when breaking into his tent and hit him with rifles.

The administration of prisons continued its suppression and humiliation against detainees after transferring them to central prisons. These policies are represented in isolation, fines, beating, destroying detainees' belongings and depriving hundreds of them of family visits. Moreover, detainees are deprived of medical treatment and health care through the policy of deliberate medical negligence.
Clamping down against detainees increased after approving the recommendations of "the committee of withdrawing the achievements of detainees" formed by the Minister of Internal Security Gilad Ardan. This committee confiscated thousands of books, decreasing the quantity of water, installing surveillance cameras and jamming devices and other procedures.
One of the most prominent procedures used by the occupation prisons is the sudden incursions and repeated inspections of rooms and cells.  Since the beginning of 2019, dozens of incursions have been carried out by repressive forces, such as "Nahshon, Yimaz, Dror and Al-mitsada". The most prominent of these were the incursions into the Ofer, Negev, Megiddo and Remon prisons.
In 20-21 January, 2019, Ofer prison witnessed a suppression process in which the Israeli forces used pepper gas, rubber coated bullets and sound bombs, where more than 150 detainees got injured.
In 21 Januray, 2019, the Israeli forces broke into section 2 at Megiddo prison, and then many breaks took place in Remon and Negev prisons, where a new battle started to confront the installing of jamming devices.
Confrontation increased between the detainees and the administration of Remon prison in March 2019, after breaking into section 7 and transferring detainees to section 1. The escalation aggravated on March 24, 2019 after breaking into section 4 using gas and sound bombs against detainees, which led to the injury of 120 detainees with different wounds such as fractures in the teeth, hands and pelvis, and wounds in the head, chest and eyes. However, the administration of prison held internal prosecutions and imposed fines up to NIS 12.000, and the administration still depriving them of medical treatment.
In order to control the detainees in last attack, the administration of Negev Prison summoned all Special Forces such as   Giv'ati battalion, in addition to martial units from the internal front.
Constant increase in the policy of systematic medical negligence
Under the state of abuse practiced by the prisons' administrations against detainees, the number of sick detainees in Israeli jails reached up to 700 who need immediate treatment. 30 of them have cancer and 14 of them are held in Al-Ramla prison clinic.
This policy is over used through systematic measures, which does not exclude any detainee. The urgent need of medical treatment is misused in an attempt to avenge them. Through the past years, the detainees' institutions followed up many cases in which their medical files were closed under the pretext that there is no cure. As a result, many detainees were either martyred or released after reaching a stage in which treatment is useless.
Medical negligence is represented in depriving detainees of treatment or medical checkups, putting him on the waiting list for months and years, giving the diagnoses after long periods and forcing them to pay for transferring them from civil hospitals to prisons.

Legislation of extreme racist laws against detainees
 Since the occupation of Palestine in 1948 and deporting its people, the Israeli occupation authorities have used the racist laws to tighten their control over the Palestinian people. Moreover, the Israeli authorities held martial courts in the territories occupied in 1967. Therefore, Palestinians have been subjected to several legal systems, so Palestinians living in the occupied territories in 1948 are subordinate to the Israeli law.
This tool extended to include Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails who were subordinate to Israeli laws in order to deprive them of their rights and trying to break their will and control them. These steps increased with the rise of the right-wing successive Israeli governments, the most criminal ones, which approved the law of execution against detainees, as well as the law of the trial of children under the age of 14 years, and the law of physical inspection without any suspicion.
The las law was the robbery of money paid by the Palestinian Liberation Organization to the families of martyrs and detainees. a law was approved to retain part of the financial benefits of the Palestinian Authority in 2018 equivalent to the allocations paid to the families of detainees and martyrs, which were estimated at one billion and one hundred million shekels per year.

Call for the widest participation in the activities of the Palestinian Prisoner's Day and providing international protection for detainees
The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, the Palestinian Society Prisoner's Club and the Supreme Commission of Detainees' Affairs called on our people to stand by the detainees and participate in the activities of the Palestinian Prisoner's Day. They also call on all Arabs and the free people of the world to support the Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails, provide an international protection for them and oblige Israel to respect the rules of the International Law and the International Humanitarian Law in dealing with detainees, and consider them freedom fighters.