OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (PIC)– The Supreme National Committee for the Support of Detainees said that at 315 Palestinians including 37 children and 5 women were arrested during the past month of July in the West Bank the Gaza Strip and Jerusalem.
Al-Khalil was the most affected city as the IOF arrested a hundred residents from this southern West Bank city during July.
The committee said that the occupation has never stopped detaining Palestinians releasing some of them after interrogation and transferring others to jails as a preliminary step to administrative detention or trial.
Reyad al-Ashqar press officer of the committee said that amongst the five women arrested by the IOF was Lanan Abu Ghalma who was released a few months ago from Israeli jails as part of the Shalit video deal. Four of the arrested women were released but Lanan Abu Ghalma is still in detention.
The IOF arrested 37 children under the age of 18 the youngest of them was 12-year-old Adi Ikhlil from al-Khalil who was sentenced to one week in jail and a financial fine.
21 Palestinian captives are past their 25th year in jail
Ashqar said that the number of Palestinian captives who spent 25 years or more in jail has risen to 21 while the number of captives who spent 20 or more years has reached 118 captives.
He also said that the number of Palestinian MPs in Israeli jails has reached 12 MPs after the arrest in July of Jerusalem MP Muhammad Abu Teir.
He also said that the Israeli occupation repressive measures against the captives have increased lately under various pretexts such as looking for cell-phones that have been smuggled into prison.
As to ill prisoners Ashqar said that they were still suffering from deliberate medical neglect on the part of prison authorities.
