About 530 Palestinians were reportedly detained or arrested including children and women by Israeli military or security forces in Jerusalem and the West Bank during last October.
According to a report released by the Palestinian Prisoner Center for Studies over 100 minors under age 18 the youngest of them 10-year-old Adnan Amr as well as 18 women and girls mostly from Jerusalem were either detained or arrested last month.
250 of those arrested Palestinians were from Jerusalem and six from the Gaza Strip. The detainees also included two journalists from al-Khalil and the 1948 occupied Palestine.
The report also noted that Israel’s military courts issued 120 administrative detention orders without indictments against Palestinian internees. 36 of them were for the first time and 84 were extensions.
