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Israel Palestine Prisoners In Jail: Palestine’s extremist group Hamas suddenly attacked Israel on October 6. During this time they fired 5000 rockets, which completely shocked Israel. After this Israel declared war against Hamas. Israeli fighter planes bombed the Gaza Strip in retaliation against the Hamas attack. At the same time, after the attack on Israel on Saturday (07 October), Hamas fighters and gunmen took dozens of Israeli civilians and soldiers to the Gaza Strip in golf carts, vans and motorbikes.
The Palestinian group has said it plans to use captured Israelis to strike a deal for the release of Palestinians held in Israeli prisons But how many Palestinians are currently in Israeli custody? How many of them are children?
America’s comparison to Israel’s prison
According to a report issued by the United Nations, since 1967, Israel had occupied East Jerusalem, Gaza Strip and the West Bank. After this, Israel has arrested about one million Palestinians in the last 56 years. One in five Palestinians has been arrested and charged under 1,600 military orders.
Every aspect of the lives of Palestinians living in the Israeli military-occupied area is controlled. The imprisonment rate for Palestinian men has doubled. Two out of every five men have been arrested. If we compare this with America, which is notorious for having the world’s largest prison population. One out of 200 men is arrested there.
The incarceration rate among black Americans in the US is more than three times the overall rate. However, even this average is a small fraction of the probability that a Palestinian will spend time in prison.
Number of Palestinians imprisoned in Israeli jails
According to Palestinian prisoner rights group Addameer, the Israeli prison system is a monstrous machinery designed to exterminate people. Today the number of Palestinians imprisoned in Israeli jails is 5,200. These include 33 women and 170 children. Israel captured Palestinian and Arab areas in the 1967 war. Two months later, the Israeli government issued Military Order 101. Under this, civil activities were declared a crime on the basis of prohibition of hostile propaganda and incitement.
This activity included participation in protests, waving flags and other political symbols, and organization deemed illegal under military orders. At the same time, after 5 years of occupation, the Israeli government issued another military order 378. Under this, military courts were established. Outlawed all forms of Palestinian resistance against Israeli occupation as terrorism.
20 years imprisonment for throwing stones
There are 19 prisons inside Israel and one inside the occupied West Bank that hold Palestinian prisoners. Under the Fourth Geneva Convention, it is against international law to transfer people from occupied territories, which Israel does. He imprisons Palestinians in Israel. On this, Amnesty International had earlier said that this is illegal and cruel.
Not allowing any incarcerated person to see their loved ones for an extended period of time can be devastating. There are 1,264 Palestinian administrative prisoners in Israeli jails. During this period, they are kept in captivity for a long time without any trial or case being filed against them.
Let us tell you that since the outbreak of the second intifada in 2000, more than 12,000 Palestinian children have been detained by Israeli forces. At least 700 Palestinian children under the age of 18 in the occupied West Bank are prosecuted by Israeli forces through military courts. The most common charge under these cases is stone throwing, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years.
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