“Israel” detained 690 Palestinian people in May 2022, advocacy groups say
Occupied Palestine (QNN) - Israeli occupation authorities have detained about 690 Palestinian citizens, including 76 children and 19 women, from occupied Palestine during May 2022, detainees’ advocacy groups said.
The human rights groups pointed out that this is the second highest number of detentions in one month since the beginning of this year, compared with April, which saw 1,228 Palestinians detained.
As usual, occupied Jerusalem saw the highest number of detentions, followed consecutively by Hebron, Jenin, and Bethlehem, they added.
They indicated that May 2022 has also seen a spike in violations and crimes committed by the Israeli occupation, including field executions, home demolitions, collective punishment measures, and systematic detention campaigns.
As of May 2022, there have been nearly 4,700 Palestinian detainees, including 32 female detainees and about 170 minors, held in Israeli occupation prisons. Of them, about 640 detainees, including two women and a child, are under administrative detention without charge or trial, the advocacy groups noted.
They also indicated that the number of Palestinian detainees who were given life sentences has jumped to 551 after an Israeli court sentenced Palestinian detainee Ahmad Asafra to life term in prison in addition to 25 years.
In April, the Israeli occupation authorities have detained 401 Palestinian citizens from occupied Jerusalem, including 58 children and 16 women, and well as issued approximately 160 administrative detention orders.
In January alone, Israeli forces and settlers carried out 28 raids on Al-Aqsa Mosque and prevented the call to prayer 57 times at the Ibrahimi Mosque, an official report said.
Israel is holding the bodies of around 777 identified Palestinians, including 88 detainees who died in Israeli prisons amid reports of torture and medical negligence, according to a Palestinian organization advocating for their release.
Only five of the 450 Palestinian patients in critical condition will be allowed to leave the Gaza Strip on Monday, after Israel reopened the Rafah Crossing between Gaza and Egypt for limited traffic following two years of genocide and nearly 20 months of closure.