WEST BANK (Dispatches) – Zionist troops rounded up 6,500 Palestinians since the start of 2022, according to a local NGO, reports Anadolu Agency.
“Among the detainees were 153 women and 811 minors,” the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) said in a statement on the occasion of anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
According to the statement, the occupying regime authorities have issued 2,134 so-called administrative detention orders against Palestinians without charge or trial.
The policy of “administrative detention” allows the Zionist regime authorities to detain anyone for six months without charge or trial, which can be extended indefinitely.
According to Palestinian figures, there are currently around 4,700 Palestinian detainees in the Zionist regime’s jails, including at least 835 held without charge or trial.
The statement highlighted that 600 Palestinian prisoners also suffer from various chronic diseases, arguing that they are subjected to tragic conditions, brutal treatment and agonizing torture.
The PPS said all Palestinian prisoners are held in inhumane conditions, do not receive necessary medical care, and are exposed to deliberate medical neglect.
It called upon international humanitarian institutions and committees concerned with prisoners’ rights to advocate for Palestinian prisoners, develop a common vision to internationalize the medical file of Palestinians, launch an international campaign to save the lives of sick prisoners, and to protect other prisoners against contracting diseases in the Zionist regime’s detention centers.