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The Israeli occupation continues to detain about 4,900 prisoners, including 31 female prisoners and 160 children.

April 16, 2023

The Israeli occupation authorities continue to detain about 4,900 prisoners, including 31 female prisoners, and 160 children, including a girl, under the age of 18.

The prisoners’ institutions, which are (the Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, the Prisoner’s Club, the Addameer Association for Prisoner Care and Human Rights, and Wadi Hilweh Center – Jerusalem), said in a report published on the eve of Prisoner’s Day, which falls on Monday, that among the prisoners there are more than 1,000 administrative detainees. They include 6 children and two families.

It stated that the number of old prisoners arrested before the signing of the Oslo Accords is 23, in addition to the fact that there are 11 prisoners who were released in a deal. "Prisoner exchange"Those who were re-arrested by the occupation, and they are among the veterans who were arrested since before Oslo and were liberated in 2011 and re-arrested in 2014, most notably the prisoner Nael Al-Barghouti.

And it showed that the number of prisoners who had spent more than 20 years has reached nearly 400 prisoners, who are known as (deans of prisoners), in addition to dozens of freedmen who were re-arrested in 2014, and spent more than 20 years in two terms.

While the number of prisoners who were sentenced to life imprisonment reached (554) prisoners, and the highest prisoner Abdullah Al-Barghouti’s sentence, whose duration was (67), life imprisonment, and the number of martyrs of the captive movement (236), since 1967, in addition to hundreds of prisoners who were martyred after their liberation affected Diseases they inherited from prisons.

Since the beginning of this year, the competent institutions have recorded about 2,300 cases of arrest. The number of detained children has reached more than (350), the majority of whom are from Jerusalem, while the number of women and girls who have been arrested has reached (40).

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Arab Desk

Arab Desk

The Arab Desk leads The Eastern Herald's reporting on the Middle East and North Africa. The desk has covered the Gaza-Israel war since October 2023, the Iran-Israel war of 2025-2026, the fall of the Assad government in Syria, Hezbollah's political and military shifts in Lebanon, the war in Yemen, and the diplomatic realignment of the Gulf states under the Abraham Accords and the Saudi-Iranian rapprochement.

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