[Pnews] An Average of 14 Palestinians arrested by Israel every night

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https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/tamara-nassar/14-palestinians-arrested-israel-every-night 



  14 Palestinians arrested by Israel every night

Tamara Nassar <https://electronicintifada.net/people/tamara-nassar> - 11 
October 2017

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Human rights groups 
<https://www.amnestyusa.org/urgent-actions/urgent-action-update-palestinian-womens-union-leader-released-israelopt-ua-187-17/> 
are renewing their calls on Israel to release Palestinian Legislative 
Council member Khalida Jarrar 
<https://electronicintifada.net/tags/khalida-jarrar> and all other 
so-called administrative detainees 
<https://electronicintifada.net/tags/administrative-detention> held 
without charge or trial.

Jarrar, a prominent leftist politician, was arrested on 2 July along 
with women’s union leader Khitam Saafin 
<https://electronicintifada.net/tags/khitam-saafin> and 9 others 
<http://www.addameer.org/news/palestinian-legislative-council-member-khalida-jarrar-arrested-israeli-occupation-forces> 
in pre-dawn raids.

Saafin was released 
<http://www.addameer.org/news/social-activist-khitam-saafin-released-israeli-prison> 
from Israel’s HaSharon prison 
<https://electronicintifada.net/tags/hasharon-prison> on 1 October after 
spending three months in detention.

“I am thankful to those who took action on my behalf. I am also happy 
that I am released but at the same time sad that I left 56 women in 
Israeli jails who are suffering from poor conditions, especially those 
that need medical treatment,” Saafin told Amnesty International 
<https://www.amnestyusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/uaa18717-1.pdf> 
after her release.

Jarrar remains imprisoned under a six-month administrative detention 
order that can be renewed indefinitely.

She previously spent 14 months in administrative detention 
<https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/charlotte-silver/israel-releases-leftist-lawmaker-khalida-jarrar> 
after an arrest in 2015.

Like all administrative detainees, neither Jarrar nor Saafin have been 
charged or tried, and are being held by Israel based on “secret evidence.”

Jarrar is a leader in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine 
and a prominent advocate for Palestinian prisoners rights.

There are currently 13 Palestinian lawmakers in Israeli prisons 
according <http://www.addameer.org/statistics> to prisoners rights group 
Addameer.


    Average of 14 arrests per night

Last month, Israeli occupation authorities renewed the administrative 
detention of female Palestinian detainee Sabah Faroun 
<http://www.addameer.org/prisoner/sabah-faroun> for the sixth time 
<http://www.addameer.org/news/administrative-detention-sabah-faroun-renewe>.

She was arrested in June 2016 from her home in the village of 
al-Eizariya east of Jerusalem. Her four children, the youngest aged 5, 
were detained alone in a separate room in the house while soldiers 
strip-searched Faroun and transferred her to a detention center.

“Sabah’s family miss the presence of their mother and wife,” Addameer 
said. “Not knowing the reasons of her arrest or the date of her release 
increases their mental suffering.”

Since Israel occupied the West Bank and Gaza Strip in 1967, more than 
10,000 Palestinian women have been arrested and detained by Israeli 
occupation forces.

“In 2017, Palestinian women and girls are routinely arrested from the 
streets, Israeli military checkpoints and during violent night raids on 
their homes during military incursions accompanied with the presence of 
Israeli soldiers, intelligence officers and police dogs, during which 
destruction of household items and property damage takes place,” 
Addameer stated 
<http://www.addameer.org/news/addameer-and-codepink-55-palestinian-women-and-girls-israel-prisons-international-womens-day> 
earlier this year.

Also in September, Israeli authorities confirmed 
<https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/israels-prisons-wont-break-us-says-jailed-palestinian-french-activist> 
the administrative detention for six months of Palestinian-French human 
rights defender Salah Hamouri 
<https://electronicintifada.net/tags/salah-hamouri>.

In September, 431 Palestinians were detained by Israeli occupation 
forces, according 
<http://www.addameer.org/news/joint-report-reveals-431-palestinians-were-arrested-september-2017> 
to Palestinian human rights groups.

That averages about 14 arrests every night.

There are currently more than 6,200 Palestinians in Israeli prisons, 
including 465 administrative detainees and 300 children.


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