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<h1 id="reader-title">January 2017 report: 590 Palestinians
seized by Israeli occupation</h1>
<div id="reader-credits" class="credits">February 6, 2017<br>
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<p>Palestinian prisoners’ and human rights associations,
the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society, Al-Mezan Center for
Human Rights, Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights
Association and the Prisoners’ Affairs Commission, <a
href="https://www.facebook.com/ppsmo/posts/1317506971647332">issued
a monthly report</a> on Sunday, 5 February on the
imprisonment of Palestinians in January 2017. The
following translation is provided by Samidoun
Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network.</p>
<p>Occupation authorities arrested 590 Palestinians from
the West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem in January 2017,
including 128 children, 14 women, a member of the
Palestinian Legislative Council and a journalist.</p>
<p>Israeli occupation authorities arrested 156
Palestinians from Jerusalem, 90 from al-Khalil, 66 from
Bethlehem, 64 from Nablus, 50 from Jenin, 56 from
Ramallah and el-Bireh, 37 of Tulkarem, 27 of Qalqilya,
13 from Tubas, 13 from the Gaza Strip, 10 from Jericho
and eight from Salfit.</p>
<p>There were 91 administrative detention orders for
imprisonment without charge or trial issued in January
2017, including 29 new orders, including one against PLC
member Ahmed Mubarak. Another such order was issued
against journalist Nidal Ab Aker.</p>
<p>The total number of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli
jails is around 7,000, including 52 women, of whom 11
are minor girls. There are 300 child prisoners,
approximately 530 administrative detainees and 21
journalists in Israeli jails.</p>
<p>January also saw dozens of aggressive night raids
against Palestinian prisoners inside Israeli jails,
including the invasion of sections and rooms of the
prisoners and ransacking their personal belongings. In
addition, the policy of medical negligence continued
against hundreds of patients, alongside the ongoing use
of administrative detention, solitary confinement and
isolation, the imprisonment of children and women
prisoners, and the imposition of heavy financial fines
against the prisoners. Hundreds were also deprived of
family visits.</p>
<p>The institutions working in the areas of prisoners and
human rights emphasized the seriousness of the current
situation inside Israeli jails at all levels, heading
towards an explosive situation, in light of the
continued series of repressive actions against
Palestinian detainees.</p>
<p>The four institutions also renewed their strongest
condemnation of the grave Israeli violations of the
principles of international humanitarian and human
rights law. While expressing pride in the struggle of
the Palestinian prisoners against their tormenters, they
confirmed the continuation of efforts to defend
Palestinian prisoners and expose the abuses against
them. They also emphasized that the prisoners’ issue is
a Palestinian national issue as well as a humanitarin
and moral issue that must compel Arab and international
efforts to exert maximum pressure on the occupation
state to stop its gross and systematic violations of
international humanitarian and human rights laws and
principles and to free Palestinian prisoners. In this
context, they renewed their call for civil society
organizations, international human rights organizations,
political parties, and democratic forces in the world to
work hard to expose abuses by the occupation forces.</p>
<p>They also urged the United Nations and the
international community to take action to stop grave
violations against Palestinian detainees, especially the
continued practice of torture and cruel and degrading
treatment. This also includes the continuing violation
of the human rights of the child, through arbitrary
arrests against children or during interrogation and
detention procedures, and urged action to compel
occupation authorities to recognize their obligations to
respect the rights of detainees against torture and
ill-treatment. They also emphasized that detainees must
be provided with proper health care, family visits and
communication with family, and they urged the release of
Palestinian women, children and administrative detainees
and the freedom of all Palestinian prisoners.</p>
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