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Israeli courts extend detention of 90 Palestinians

Thursday, 19 November 2015 10:52 PM [ Last Update: Thursday, 19 November 2015 11:02 PM ]

The file photo shows a general view of an Israeli prison.

The Palestinian Prisoners' Society (PPS) says the Israeli regime has extended the detention of 90 Palestinian prisoners, including several minors, who are being kept in Israeli prisons on unknown charges.

The PPS said on Thursday that the extension ordered by Israeli courts is reportedly for further interrogations and completion of legal procedures, the Palestinian Ma’an news agency reported.

Since the beginning of October, when the Israeli aggression against Palestinians saw a new surge, there has been a rise in the number of arrests, according to Addameer, a Palestinian prisoner support and human rights association.

Israeli forces arrested 416 Palestinians in the first 12 days of November, including 122 minors, the PPS reported earlier this month, while Addameer noted that in October alone, some 1,000 Palestinians, including 147 children, were kidnapped by Israeli troops.

Tensions in the occupied Palestinian territories have dramatically escalated since the Israeli regime’s imposition of restrictions on the entry of Palestinian worshipers to the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in East al-Quds (Jerusalem) in August.

Palestinians are also angry at increasing violence by Israeli settlers at the al-Aqsa Mosque and their attacks on Palestinian properties, saying that the Tel Aviv regime seeks to change the status quo of the compound.

In a separate development, a Palestinian man, identified as Mahmoud Said Ulayyan (pictured below), succumbed to injuries he sustained in clashes with Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah earlier this month.

The 20-year-old was shot in the head in a demonstration to mark the death anniversary of the former leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Yasser Arafat.

His death reportedly brought to 92 the number of Palestinians killed at the hands of Israelis since the beginning of October.

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