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NGOs: Over 10,800 Palestinians abducted in West Bank since Oct. 7

Monday, 23 September 2024 1:51 PM [ Last Update: Monday, 23 September 2024 6:18 PM ]

An Israeli soldier stands next to a military vehicle in a street near the building where the office of Al Jazeera television news network is located, in Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank, September 22, 2024. (Photo by Reuters)

Israeli forces have abducted more than 10,000 Palestinians in violent raids across the occupied West Bank since the regime’s onslaught on the besieged Gaza Strip started last October, two Palestinian prisoners' rights groups say.

The Commission of Detainees’ and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) announced in a joint statement on Monday that over 10,800 individuals have been detained during the mentioned period as Israeli occupation forces continue a large-scale arrest campaign in the occupied territory unabated.

The statement added that the figure includes those abducted from their homes, detained at military checkpoints, those who surrendered under pressure, and those taken hostage.

The two Palestinian prisoners’ rights groups further detailed that Israeli occupation forces have arrested at least 16 Palestinians, including a young girl and former prisoners, from the occupied West Bank during the past 24 hours.

The arrests were carried out across the governorates of Bethlehem, al-Khalil, Ramallah, Tubas, and Salfit.

They were accompanied by widespread raids and abuse, assaults and threats against detainees and their families, in addition to vandalism and destruction of citizens' homes.

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Palestinian detainees have continuously resorted to open-ended hunger strikes in an attempt to express outrage at their illegal detention.

Israel keeps Palestinian inmates under deplorable conditions without proper hygienic standards. Palestinian inmates have also been subject to systematic torture, harassment, and repression.

Human rights organizations say Israel continues to violate all rights and freedoms granted to prisoners by the Fourth Geneva Convention and international laws.

According to the Palestine Detainees Studies Center, around 60 percent of the Palestinian prisoners detained in Israeli jails suffer from chronic diseases, a number of whom died in detention or after being released due to the severity of their cases.

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