Israel Has Committed Mass Arrests Since the Beginning of Eid Al-Adha

Palestinian Mothers Seeing how their sons are detained by the IDF, June 2024 Photo: @Irish_Fox_Hound

June 19, 2024 Hour: 9:38 pm

PPS said that the number of Palestinians detained since the onset of Israel’s relentless aggression on October 7, 2023, has reached 9,280, including children and women.

On Wednesday, according to the Society of Palestinian Prisoners, reported that at least 90 civilians, including women and children, were arrested since the beginning of the Muslim holiday of Eid Al-adha, last Sunday.

PPS said that the number of Palestinians detained since the onset of Israel’s relentless aggression on October 7, 2023, has reached 9,280, including children and women.

The detainees either were detained and taken by the army from their homes and at military checkpoints, or forced under pressure to hand themselves to Israel.

These detention campaigns come amidst the comprehensive aggression launched by the occupation against the Palestinian people as a retaliatory measure, which falls under the crime of collective punishment.

Israeli forces arrested Aziz Dweik, Speaker of the Palestinian legislative council from his home in Hebron, West Bank, less than a week after his release from detention on 9 June.
Dweik, 77, was arrested on 17 October and held under military detention for six months, which was… pic.twitter.com/quMn6uhBxR
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Detention operations have been and continue to be one of the most prominent and systematic policies used by the occupation to undermine any rising resistance against it.

In addition, the Prisoners’ Society denounced the blatant harassment of those captured in IDF-run prisons, for example Amir Abdullah Jamal Marjan, 23, who claimed that he had suffered beatings, electric shocks, insults and an attempt to inject him with unknown substances.