RAMALLAH, (PIC)
The Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) announced that the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) escalated systematic arrest operations against Palestinian women after the start of the war on Gaza on October 7, the most recent of which was the arrest of the two sisters of martyr Ahmed Ghaidan from Ramallah. Both are mothers in their fifth month of pregnancy.
In a statement on Thursday, the PPS said that the IOF arrest campaigns among women affected minors, students, wives of detainees or martyrs, elderly women, mothers, and even breastfeeding mothers.
The PPS explained that the number of arrests among women after October 7 climbed to about 270 women arrested from various areas in the West Bank, including some Gazan women, occupied Jerusalem, and 1948 Occupied Palestine.
The majority of the detained women were accused of charges related to incitement on social media platforms, which has become the most frequent pretext used by Israel to arrest citizens after October 7.
