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Brief on detention campaigns carried out in the West Bank since October 7 until May 20, 2024 This brief includes only those who got arrested from the West Bank, while detainees from Gaza are still under forcible hide

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Brief on detention campaigns carried out in the West Bank since October 7 until May 20, 2024

This brief includes only those who got arrested from the West Bank, while detainees from Gaza are still under forcible hide

The total number of arrests stands at (8800) in the West Bank and Jerusalem.


. Women: the total number of women arrests stands at (293) including women arrested from the lands occupied in 1948, in addition to Gazan women who have been arrested in the West Bank.

. Children: the number of children arrests stands at (620)

. Journalists: (75) journalists have been arrested, (48) of them are still under arrest, and (12) Gazan detainees under the forcible hide.

. More than (5900) orders of administrative detention have been issued since October 7, ranging between new orders and renewals, including orders against children and women.


Detention campaigns carried out since October 7 are accompanied by escalated crimes and violations such as humiliation, brutal beat, threats against detainees and their families, besides to vandalism and destruction in detainees’ houses, confiscating vehicles, gold and money, in addition to the destruction of infrastructure especially in the refugee camps of Tulkarem and Jenin.

Statistics include detainees who were arrested from their houses, on checkpoints, who surrendered themselves and those who were arrested as hostages.

Besides to detention campaigns, the Israeli forces implemented field executions, afflicted detainees and their family members.

. (18) detainees martyred in Israeli prisons and military camps since the 7th of October: (Omar Daraghmeh from Tubas, Arafat Hamdan from Ramallah, Majed Zaqqul from Gaza, the fourth martyr’s identity is unknown, Abdulrahman Maree from Salfit, Thaer Abu Assab from Qalqilia, Abdulrahman Bahsh from Nablus, Muhammad Sabbar from Hebron, Khaled Shawish from Tubas, Ezz Al-deen banna from Gaza, Assef Refae from Ramallah, Ahmad Qdaih and Jumaa Abu Ghnaimeh, Walid Daqqa, Abdulraheem Amer, Dr. Adnan Barsh, Ismail Khader) in addition to the wounded detainee Muhammad Abu Snaineh from Jerusalem, who martyred in Hadassa Hospital.

It is said that the corpses of (16) detainees who martyred after October 7 are still withheld, among (27) martyrs.
It is worth mentioning that the Israeli media revealed information that indicates the martyrdom of tens of detainees from Gaza in military camps, while the occupation authorities refused to reveal their identities. Moreover, they acknowledged the execution of many detainees.

statistics on detention cases includes detainees who still under arrest and liberated ones

Data does not include detention cases of Gaza, due to the occupation’s refusal to give any information and the continuation of practicing the crime of forcible hide against them. It is worth mentioning that the occupation forces arrested hundreds of Gazan workers in the West Bank, in addition to citizens from Gaza who were previously in the West Bank for medical treatment.

Detainees’ Institutions ( Commission of Detainees’ Affairs, Palestinian Society Prisoner’s Club, Addameer Association for Human Rights )

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*The administration of Remon Prison ignores following up on patient detainees*

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*The administration of Remon Prison ignores following up on patient detainees*

May 18, 2024

The members of the Legal Affairs Unit at the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs were able to visit the leader detainee Muhammad Tous in Remon prison, in addition to both detainees Murad Abu Alrub and Taher Saleh, who talked about their suffering and the plight of all detainees in the prison, especially patient detainees, whom the the administration of prison ignores their diseases and health conditions, practicing systematic crime against them by leaving them to be victims of illnesses and depriving them of medication.

The leader detainee Muhammad Tous, who is detained since 1985 and sentenced to life imprisonment, talked about the general situation in the prison and described it as bad as it possibly could, that he hasn’t witnessed since his detention forty years ago, as all types of penalties are imposed on them, afflicting the smallest details of their daily routine.
Regarding his health condition, the legal team confirmed that his poor vision increased, as he had retinal problems two years ago and he was receiving medical treatment, but the prison’s administration suspended his treatment since the outbreak of the war, which led to a deterioration in his vision and he sees only at close range.

Detainee Murad Abu Alrub, who is sentenced to life imprisonment, emphasized that even the patient detainees with complicated health conditions were subjected to cruel penalties and get affected by racism, extremism and hatred. He pointed out that he exists in a room in which four detainees are using respirator devices: Khalil Baraqaa, Assaf Zahran, Assad Zourob and Samer Hashash. He also talked about the spread of skin diseases among detainees due to the deprivation of sanitizers and cleaning supplies, in addition to the lack of clothes and covers.
Regarding his health condition, he was supposed to have a surgery in his nose, as he had fractures during his arrest, but he has been deprived of it because of the escalated procedures after the war.

Detainee Taher Saleh, who is sentenced to administrative detention since 4 years, talked about his serious health condition, as he felt unwell before two months and had severe headache and pain in the chest and lost consciousness, which led to a paralysis in the left side of his body. He got unable to move the jaw, arm and leg. He is also unable to walk or use the toilet, and currently he uses a wheelchair and gets assisted by detainees. He has memory problems and cognitive issues, and recently he was able to move his jaw after receiving nerve medication. Despite his serious health condition, he has not been transferred to hospital, noting that he was informed by the doctor of the prison’s clinic that he needed electrical stimulation to revive his nervous systems.

The commission warns of the escalation in the medical crimes which threaten the lives of hundreds of patient detainees, as the situation requires immediate international intervention. The commission stated that pursuing depriving patient detainees of medication and treatment put their lives in danger, especially that jailers lack the minimum fundamentals of humanity and take advantage of the outside incidents to increase aches, pains and diseases among detainees.
 
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*On the 76th memorial of the constant Palestinian “Nakba” catastrophe*

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*On the 76th memorial of the constant Palestinian “Nakba” catastrophe*

*Detainees’ Institutions: The systematic detention operations constitute one of the most prominent forms of the ongoing “Nakba” catastrophe for 76 years*

On the occasion of the 76th memorial of the Palestinian Nakba, which comes this year in coincidence with the genocide ongoing since 222 days against our people in Gaza Strip, Detainees’ Institutions stated that the systematic detention operations practiced by the Israeli colonial regime constitute one of the most prominent forms of the constant Nakba against our people.

Detainees’ Institutions ( Commission of Detainees’ Affairs, the Palestinian Society Prisoner’s Club, Aaddameet Association for Human Rights) reported in a brief statement issued on the occasion of 76th memorial of the Palestinian Nakba, that the current stage is the most violent on the fate of detainees held in Israeli prisons historically, which is an extension of the occupation’s approach and its firm policies practiced over decades.

On this memorial, Detainees’ institutions confirmed that the history of systematic detention operations and holding our people in the colonial prisons started before the Nakba and the British mandate, which bequeathed laws and policies that the Israeli occupation is still using until today in consolidating the detention operations, that afflicted more than one million Palestinians.

Detainees’ institutions confirmed that the struggle of detainees over the past decades, and confronting all forms of torture and horrific crimes in the light of the genocide, reflects the determination of Palestinian people to attain freedom and self determination.

Moreover, Detainees’ institutions pointed out that more than 9300 Palestinian detainees are currently held in Israeli prisons, including 3400 administrative detainees, more than 80 women and more than 250 minors, noting that these information does not include detainees from Gaza Strip, who are held in military camps subordinates to the Israeli occupation army, due to the crime of forcible hide imposed on them since the date of genocide.
 
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The Commission of Detainees and Ex- Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Society Prisoner’s Club mourn the former detainee Farouq Khatib who martyred after few months of liberation due to a medical crime committed against him by the IPS

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The Commission of Detainees and Ex- Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Society Prisoner’s Club mourn the former detainee Farouq Khatib who martyred after few months of liberation due to a medical crime committed against him by the IPS 
 
 The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs, the Palestinian Society Prisoner’s Club, Institutions working on detainees’ Affairs, the Captive Movement in Israeli prisons and liberated detainees mourned the former detainee Farouq Khatib, 30, from Abu Shkaidem/ Ramallah, who martyred yesterday at the Istishari Arab Hospital in Ramallah, due to a medical crimes committed against him by the IPS before releasing him on December 20, 2023. The commission and the prisoner’s club said in a joint statement issued today that the martyr Khatib, was sentenced to administrative detention for four months, after few months of releasing him, where he was serving four years of imprisonment. According to his family, they confirmed that Farouq was not suffering from any chronic diseases during his temporary freedom, and they have been shocked by his appearance when he was released from prison, where they did not believe that he got to this serious health condition within four months, as the disease is at an advanced stage. He was exposed to a series of crimes as well as medical crimes which led to his martyrdom. He, like thousands of detainees in Israeli prisons, was exposed to brutal attack during his last detention, where the Israeli occupation authorities pursued the crime in order to kill him, by the continuation of detaining him under the administrative detention under the pretext of the existence of a confidential file, in spite of his serious health condition as he suffers from cancer. During his detention, he was detained at Nafaha prison after being transferred from Ofer prison, then he was transferred to Al-Ramla prison’s clinic, then to Soroka Hospital. The IPS intended to obstruct visiting him by legal teams, who faced many difficulties in following up on detainees cases after the genocide, due to the retaliatory measures imposed by the occupation on detainees. The commission and the prisoner’s club confirmed that the case of detainee Khatib is not the only case of detainees who were liberated from the Israeli prisons in serious health conditions. Over decades, many patient detainees were martyred after liberation due to the systematic medical crimes committed against them. In the light of escalating the aggression, systematic crimes, torture and medical crimes, 18 detainees martyred in Israeli prisons. These details are related to detainees whom their martyrdom was announced, while detainees from Gaza Strip are still under the forcible hide, as the Israeli occupation pursued hiding their identities, bearing in mind that the occupation’s media had revealed the martyrdom of tens of Gazan detainees in military camps subordinated to the occupation’s army, without revealing their identities or martyrdom conditions. The commission and the prisoner’s club held the Israeli authorities fully responsible for the martyrdom of detainee Khatib, and renewed their calls for all human rights organizations to assume their responsibility and break the state of inaction within the unprecedented crimes pursued by the occupation and the constant genocide supported by national powers against our people in Gaza, as well as pursuing the mass aggression against our male and female detainees in Israeli prisons, where the majority of detainees suffer from diseases at varying degrees due to crimes of torture and starvation , as well as constant medical crimes.
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Police officers of Ofer prison deal with detainees without regulations

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Police officers of Ofer prison deal with detainees without regulations

May 18, 2024

The Commission of Detainees’ Affairs stated that detainees in Ofer prison suffer from the guards’ mood swings , as torture and targeting are carried out without any regulations, and each police officer can attack detainees and impose penalties against them without any justification.

The advocate of the commission was able to visit detainees Ahmad Thawabta, Majd Hajjaj, Zeyad Taha, Alaa Jouda and Wisam Ali, where all of them confirmed that the prison’s administration is still dealing with them in a retaliatory manner. Thus, penalties, attacks, insults, deprivation, starvation and denial of the Palestinian humanity are still the same, so we are captives to the emotional instability of the guards.

The commission emphasized that the guards that have been summoned after the seventh of October have more brutality towards detainees, as they intend to harm them. They are gangs of teenagers, and that’s what detainees, who were liberated over the past weeks and months, have agreed upon.

The commission’s advocate conveyed the suffering of detainee Thawabta, as he has herniated disc that puts pressure on the nerves of his legs and cause severe pain, where he has not received any medication. Regarding detainee Taha, he was exposed to intense beat during arrest, causing fractures in the chest. He had a surgery in his leg before his detention and needs post- treatment care. However, the administration of prison ignored his case and he still has severe pains, and suffers from tooth loss due intense beat took place during his arrest. He was left untreated.

The administration of Ofer prison intended to determine the way of treating detainees on a daily basis, so that there is no indications of stability and detainees will remain anxious and worried, as attacks and incursions took place in different times, and there are obvious targets to affect their psychology and undermine their self esteem and dignity through cursing them using profanity.
 
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*On the 76th memorial of the Palestinian Nakba*

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*On the 76th memorial of the Palestinian Nakba*

. The total number of arrest cases after October 7 stands at (8745)
Including:

.292 women
.615 children
.18 martyrs
.75 journalists, 49 of whom are still under arrest
 
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*The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs conveys details about the health condition of the isolated detainee Mazen Al-Qadi*

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*The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs conveys details about the health condition of the isolated detainee Mazen Al-Qadi*

May 19, 2024

The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs conveyed details about the health and detention conditions of the detainee Mazen Al-Qadi, 44, from Al-Bireh/Ramallah, who was transferred to Remonim prison’s isolation about a month ago.

The commission’s advocate who visited the detainee said that Al-Qadi suffers from inability to move two fingers in his right hand, due to nerve damage caused by the brutal attack he was exposed to by the wardens in Megiddo prison in 31/10/2023, in addition to injuries in his head where he took five stitches.

The attack was repeated against the detainee in 16/11/2024, as Nahshon Special Forces have beaten him on his injured hand, which led to reopen the wound. Al-Qadi confirmed the bad situation in Remonim prison’s isolation subordinate to the retaliatory penalties imposed on all prisons since October 7, as he lost 22 kgs of weight. Bearing in mind that Al-Qadi was arrested in 2002, and was interrogated in a brutal manner lasted for 50 days at Ashkelon detention center. After 21 months of detention, the Israeli occupation authorities sentenced him to 3 life imprisonment in addition to 25 years. His father passed away during his detention, and he was unable to bid farewell, besides, his family were repeatedly deprived of visiting him.
 
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*The administration of Nafaha Prison deliberately obstructs the advocates’ visit to detainees*

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*The administration of Nafaha Prison deliberately obstructs the advocates’ visit to detainees*

May 17, 2024

The Commission of Detainees’ Affairs reported that the administration of Nafaha Prison intended to obstruct the advocates’ visits to detainees through procrastination in bringing them to the visit room and providing security pretexts, as the process takes more than one hour and a half for each detainee, which enabled the legal team of the commission to visit 4 detainees out of 8 over the past two days.

The commission said that the legal team was able to visit the detainees Kamal Abu Shanab from Jenin, Haitham Salhiya and Malik Hamed from Ramallah and Nael Najjar from Gaza, while they couldn’t visit Husam Shaheen, Alaa Bazyan, Sedqi Zarou and Nidal Zalloum, due to the complications imposed by the prison’s administration.

The commission emphasized that its advocates conveyed the plight of detainees and their difficult conditions, where detainees confirmed the continuation of the abusive procedures that started on October 7, represented in beating, cursing, starvation, isolation and ignoring sick detainees and depriving them of medication. They pointed out that the pace of prison’s administration measures goes up and down, but in general, the living conditions have not change much in cruelty since the first day of the war.

Detainees informed the legal team about the overcrowding in rooms and sections, which forced many of them to sleep on the ground, in the light of clothes and covers lack. Their rooms are empty, their weight decreased sharply and this is apparent on their bodies and features. They get transferred on a daily basis between rooms and sections, and during this process, they get exposed to beat, cursing and humiliation.

The Commission warns of the unethical and inhumane treatment of detainees in Nafaha Prison, especially that the majority of them are serving long-terms, life sentences and spent long years in prison. Detainees used sign language during the visit to express the seriousness of the situation and their living conditions, out of fear of exposing themselves to beat and torture after the visit, which actually happened to tens of them over the past few months.
 

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