An-Najah News - Ramallah - Prisoners' institutions said that since the beginning of the outbreak of the corona virus, at the beginning of last March, the Israeli occupation forces have arrested 357 citizens, including 48 children, and four women.
The Committee of Detainees and ex-Detainees Affaris, the Prisoners Club, Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, and The Center for Defense of Liberties & Civil Rights “Hurryyat” have elaborated in a statement for the anniversary of the Prisoner’s Day, that since the beginning of this year, the occupation forces arrested more than 1,300 citizens, including 210 children and 31 women, and 295 administrative detention orders were issued against prisoners.
Data on prisoners in the Israeli occupation prisons:
- 5 thousand prisoners remain in the occupation prisons.
- 41 female prisoners are held in Al-Damoun prison.
-180 children and minors are distributed in prisons (Ofer, Majdou and Damoun).
- The old prisoners held before the signing of the Oslo Agreement, there are 26 prisoners, the oldest of whom are the two prisoners, Karim Younis, and Maher Younis, who have been detained continuously since 1983.
- Prisoner Nael Al-Barghouthi spends the longest period of detention in the prisoners’ history, a total of 40 years, of which he spent 34 years continuously, and was freed in 2011 in an exchange deal, until he was arrested again in 2014.
- The number of prisoners whose arrest exceeds 20 years: 51.
- The number of prisoners sentenced for death is 541; the prisoner who is sentenced with the highest number of years is Abdullah Abdullah Al-Barghouthi, whose sentence is 67 years.
- The number of prisoners whom the occupation killed as a result of the policy of slow medical killing through the procedures of deliberate medical negligence, has reached 67 since 1967.
- During the past year 2019, five prisoners died inside prisons due to medical negligence and torture: Fares Baroud, Omar Awni Younis, Nassar Taqatqa, Bassam Al-Sayeh and Sami Abu Dayak.
Administrative detainees: There are approximately 430 administrative detainees.
Journalists: There are 13 journalists in Israeli prisons.
- The prisoners who suffer from illnesses, who are about 700, of whom approximately 300 suffer from chronic conditions and are in need of continuous treatment, and at least there are ten cases of cancer and tumors of varying degrees, among whom is the prisoner Fuad al-Shobaki ,81, who is the oldest prisoner.
He called on the institutions of the prisoners, to intervene and pressure the occupation to release the prisoners and female prisoners from the occupation prisons, as in other countries of the world, especially the sick and elderly prisoners, minors and the administrative detained prisoners, as an urgent necessity to save their lives.
Tomorrow, Friday, the seventeenth of April, coincides with the national and international day for supporting the Palestinian prisoners in the prisons of the Israeli occupation, which was approved by the Palestinian National Council in 1974, during its regular session, and considered it a day to unite the efforts and activities to support them, and support their legitimate right to freedom.
