The Israeli police and the General Security Services (Shin Bet) arrested 165 Palestinian young men and women in 1948 Occupied Palestine within two days for their participation in the protests against the aggression on Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip and against the settlers’ attacks on Palestinians.
The Arab 48 website reported that the number of detainees in Al-Taybeh Al-Tira Umm Al-Fahm and Qalansawa on Sunday and Monday reached 13 eight of whom were released later.
Eyewitnesses reported that a number of youths were arrested in Haifa and Kafr Qara town.
The Israeli police arrested on Tuesday three citizens from the village of Aylout for the suspicion of attempting to assault a police officer during the recent events.
Meanwhile the Magistrates Court in Acre released Muhammad Mutlaq from Al-Ba’nah without any conditions after the police interrogated him while the young woman Asala Mansour from Majd al-Krum was transferred to house arrest for five days.
For his part the lawyer Hassan Jabareen the Director-General of the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Occupied Palestine (Adalah) referred to the police violations and the recent campaign of arrests in an interview with Arab 48 by saying “The arrest campaign is purely political.”
Jabareen opined that the Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu had apparently given the green light for the campaign.
On Sunday evening the police stated in a statement that they launched a campaign called Law and Order to carry out arrests searches and investigations with protesters in 1948 Occupied Palestine until indictments are submitted against them.
The Israeli police had rounded up more than 1550 Palestinians over the past two weeks while 150 indictments were submitted.
