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<h1 id="reader-title">14 Palestinians arrested by Israel every
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<p class="node__submitted"> <span class="field field-author"><a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/people/tamara-nassar">Tamara
Nassar</a></span> <span class="field field-blog">-</span>
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content="2017-10-11T22:22:15+00:00">11 October 2017</span></span>
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<p><a
href="https://www.amnestyusa.org/urgent-actions/urgent-action-update-palestinian-womens-union-leader-released-israelopt-ua-187-17/">Human
rights groups</a> are renewing their calls on Israel
to release Palestinian Legislative Council member <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/tags/khalida-jarrar">Khalida Jarrar</a>
and all other so-called <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/tags/administrative-detention">administrative
detainees</a> held without charge or trial.</p>
<p>Jarrar, a prominent leftist politician, was arrested
on 2 July along with women’s union leader <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/tags/khitam-saafin">Khitam
Saafin</a> and <a
href="http://www.addameer.org/news/palestinian-legislative-council-member-khalida-jarrar-arrested-israeli-occupation-forces">9
others</a> in pre-dawn raids.</p>
<p>Saafin was <a
href="http://www.addameer.org/news/social-activist-khitam-saafin-released-israeli-prison">released</a>
from Israel’s <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/tags/hasharon-prison">HaSharon
prison</a> on 1 October after spending three months
in detention.</p>
<p>“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 <a
href="https://www.amnestyusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/uaa18717-1.pdf">told
Amnesty International</a> after her release.</p>
<p>Jarrar remains imprisoned under a six-month
administrative detention order that can be renewed
indefinitely.</p>
<p>She <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/charlotte-silver/israel-releases-leftist-lawmaker-khalida-jarrar">previously
spent 14 months in administrative detention</a>
after an arrest in 2015.</p>
<p>Like all administrative detainees, neither Jarrar nor
Saafin have been charged or tried, and are being held
by Israel based on “secret evidence.”</p>
<p>Jarrar is a leader in the Popular Front for the
Liberation of Palestine and a prominent advocate for
Palestinian prisoners rights.</p>
<p>There are currently 13 Palestinian lawmakers in
Israeli prisons <a
href="http://www.addameer.org/statistics">according</a>
to prisoners rights group Addameer.</p>
<h2>Average of 14 arrests per night</h2>
<p>Last month, Israeli occupation authorities renewed
the administrative detention of female Palestinian
detainee <a
href="http://www.addameer.org/prisoner/sabah-faroun">Sabah
Faroun</a> for the <a
href="http://www.addameer.org/news/administrative-detention-sabah-faroun-renewe">sixth
time</a>.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>“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.”</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>“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 <a
href="http://www.addameer.org/news/addameer-and-codepink-55-palestinian-women-and-girls-israel-prisons-international-womens-day">stated</a>
earlier this year.</p>
<p>Also in September, Israeli authorities <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/israels-prisons-wont-break-us-says-jailed-palestinian-french-activist">confirmed</a>
the administrative detention for six months of
Palestinian-French human rights defender <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/tags/salah-hamouri">Salah
Hamouri</a>.</p>
<p>In September, 431 Palestinians were detained by
Israeli occupation forces, <a
href="http://www.addameer.org/news/joint-report-reveals-431-palestinians-were-arrested-september-2017">according</a>
to Palestinian human rights groups.</p>
<p>That averages about 14 arrests every night.</p>
<p>There are currently more than 6,200 Palestinians in
Israeli prisons, including 465 administrative
detainees and 300 children.</p>
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