Among them are dozens of children and women .. Israel arrests hundreds of children in poor detention conditions

Palestinian human rights organizations said that Israel arrested 429 Palestinians, including 32 children, last July, and that Jerusalem witnessed the largest number of detainees, 200 Palestinians.

The institutions stated in their statement that among the detainees, 13 were from the Gaza Strip, while the rest of the arrests were distributed among the various regions of the West Bank, indicating that the total number of Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons reached about 4,500 detainees, 41 of whom were female.

The institutions participating in the issuance of the statement are: the Prisoners' Affairs Authority and Ex-Prisoners' Affairs, the Palestinian Prisoners' Club, the Addameer Association for Prisoner Care and Human Rights, and the Wadi Hilweh Information Center-Silwan.

In its statement, the human rights organizations reviewed the conditions of Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons, the conditions of their detention and what they suffer due to the spread of the Corona pandemic.

In her statement, she said, "The Israeli occupation forces are pursuing unfair policies to restrict prisoners and detainees, especially with the situation imposed by the Coronavirus."

"The pandemic is being used to undermine the work of lawyers and prevent them from visiting prisoners, and the ban extends to their families," she added.

She explained that the Israeli authorities "have converted some detention centers that are not suitable for human detention into quarantine for newly arrested detainees for a period of 14 days, without referring them to investigation and without providing the simplest methods and tools for sterilization and prevention."

The Palestinian human rights organizations demanded "pressuring the Israeli occupation authorities to release the sick prisoners, women and children, and to allow an impartial international committee to review the conditions of the prisoners and the results of samples (related to Corona) that are made for the prisoners."

It directed, "once again, its requests to the International Committee of the Red Cross, as a competent authority, to double their capacity in the occupied Palestinian territories, in order to be able to cover the needs of prisoners and their families, and to help them communicate and provide what they need in light of the ongoing pandemic."