RAMALLAH (Dispatches) – Around one million Palestinians have been arrested by Zionist troops since the 1967 war, according to a local NGO.
“Around 17,000 women and girls and 50,000 children were among those detained,” the Commission on Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs said in a statement.
The NGO said more than 54,000 so-called administrative detention orders were recorded since 1967.
The policy of ‘administrative detention’ allows the occupying regime’s authorities to extend the detention of a prisoner without charge or trial.
“A total of 226 detainees have died inside Israeli prisons since 1967,” it added.
The NGO said all those detained experienced “some form of physical or psychological torture, moral abuse, and cruel treatment”.
An estimated 4,500 Palestinians are believed to be held in the Zionist regime’s prisons, including 41 women, 140 minors, and 440 administrative detainees, according to data compiled by organizations on the rights of prisoners.
During the 1967 war, the Zionist regime occupied the West Bank, East al-Quds, Syria’s Golan Heights and Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, which was later returned to Egypt under the 1979 deal with the regime.

Prominent Palestinian
Activists Arrested

Zionist troops on Sunday arrested the outspoken activist and journalist Muna al-Kurd from her home in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in al-Quds, according to footage posted online by her friends.
Her brother Mohammed al-Kurd was arrested hours later, according to footage posted by their friends.
The siblings, whose family has been living under the threat of imminent displacement from their house in Karm al-Jaouni in occupied East al-Quds’ Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, have become icons of the Palestinian struggle against the occupying regime’s settler expansion.
In statements to the Palestinian Wafa news agency, the journalist’s father, Nabil al-Kurd, said Zionist troops stormed his house “in a provocative manner” before arresting his daughter Muna and delivered a summons warrant for her brother Mohammed al-Kurd, who was not at home at the time of arrest.
He added that the Zionist troops took his daughter to the police station on Salah El-Din Street in central al-Quds.
On Saturday, Mohammed al-Kurd said that Zionist settlers threw stones and gas at his home while the regime’s troops did not prevent them from doing so.
The arrest of the Kurds came 12 hours after the regime’s troops assaulted and detained Al Jazeera correspondent Givara Budeiri and photographer Nabil Mazzawi while press crews were covering the demonstrations in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood on the 54th anniversary of the Naksa.