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Probe reveals 7,000 Palestinians remain jailed by Israel

Xinhua, April 15, 2016 Adjust font size:

Israel is imprisoning in its prisons 7,000 Palestinians, including 70 women, an official Palestinian survey published on Friday said.

The survey conducted by the Palestinian Corporation for Prisoners and Freed Ones said that the prisoners are held in 22 prisons, jails and detention camps in Israel and the West Bank.

The survey said that since early October last year, Israel arrested 4,800 Palestinians, including 400 children, most of them are from east Jerusalem and from the southern West Bank city of Hebron.

The corporation's survey confirmed that the used Israeli measures of arrests "are illegal and violate the human laws in terms of circumstances of arrests, places where the prisoners are held and methods of interrogations used against them.

"The prisoners who are under administrative detention are 750 while prisoners who suffer from various diseases and sicknesses had climbed to 700, including 300 prisoners are admitted at the prisons' hospitals," said the survey.

The report also said that during 2015, two prisoners died in jail, adding "they were sick and the prisons services didn't provide them the medicines they need." Endit