The Palestinian Prisoner’s Club said that the limited release operations that took place of a group of administrative detainees during the last period from the Israeli occupation prisons were met with continuous daily arrest campaigns, in addition to the occupation’s intelligence service continuing to issue more administrative detention orders under the pretext of the presence of… (Secret file).

The club added in a statement on Thursday that the number of prisoners and detainees in the occupation prisons is constantly increasing, and that the limited releases that took place did not constitute any change in the number of prisoners, including the number of administrative detainees, as the issue of administrative detainees constituted the most prominent issue that left significant changes. It is significant and historic in terms of the issue of prisoners, as the occupation targeted the vast majority of detainees from the West Bank through this policy.

The Prisoner Club explained that although the increase
in the number of administrative detainees increased in intensity after the seventh of October , the increase was not actually linked to this date. It began noticeably since April 2022 , after the number of administrative detainees remained… It ranges between 400-500 detainees, with the exception of the period following the ‘popular uprising’ in 2015, when their number at that time reached more than 700. The number of administrative detainees in April 2022 reached 600 detainees, and has continued to rise until today, reaching To the historically highest numbers, based on the data available to the relevant institutions.

The number of administrative detainees as of the beginning of this April is more than (3,660) administrative detainees, including (22) women and more than (40) children.

He pointed out that the Israeli occupation forces administratively arrested thousands of Palestinian citizens after October 7 , and targeted all groups, including: university students, journalists, women, former members of t
he Legislative Council, human rights activists, workers, lawyers, mothers, and detainees. Former workers, merchants, and children, knowing that the occupation regime used administrative detention as a tool for repression, control, intimidation, and undermining any escalating state of struggle, and it emerged specifically in the years of uprisings and popular uprisings.

Source: Maan News Agency