1500 Palestinians Arrested by Israeli Forces in Less Than 2 Years

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Ramallah, MINA – Nearly 15,000 Palestinians have been arrested by the Israeli occupation forces over the past couple of years.

According to the Committee of Palestinian Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners, dozens of Palestinians are chased down and arrested by the Israeli forces on a daily basis under the security pretext, PIC reported.

The committee kept record of the abduction of 14,789 Palestinians since early October 2015.

63% of those arrested in October are from the West Bank; 33,5% from Occupied Jerusalem. The list also includes hundreds of Gazans and Palestinians from territories occupied in 1948.

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Head of the Studies and Documentation Department at the committee, Abdul Nasser Farawna, said all of those detained by the Israeli forces have been subjected to a form of psychological or/and physical torture and mistreatment.

Nearly 6,000 Palestinian detainees are locked up in Israeli jails across the occupied Palestinian territories, among them 13 minor girls.(R/R04/RS5)

Mi’raj News Agency (MINA) 

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