’Israel’ Arrests More than 1,000 Palestinians this Month

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"Israel" arrested more than 1,000 Palestinians and 1948-Palestinians since the October 1 surge in violence, the Palestinian Prisoners Club said Sunday.

Most of them were young men and women, the Ramallah-based aid group said.

The most arrests -- 221 -- occurred in the occupied southern West Bank city of al-Khalil [Hebron], a regular flashpoint where some 500 "Israeli" settlers live under heavy protection surrounded by nearly 200,000 Palestinians.

Next was "Israeli"-annexed east al-Quds [Jerusalem] with 201, followed by the besieged West Bank city of Ramallah with 138.

A further 160 1948-Palestinians were arrested in connection with unrest, the group said.

Among the Palestinians, 87 of those arrested were placed in administrative detention, a measure which allows imprisonment without trial for six-month periods renewable indefinitely.

The club said that more than 6,000 Palestinians are currently imprisoned by the "Israeli" apartheid regime, 420 of them in administrative detention.

Since the start of the month 53 Palestinians and one 1948-Palestinian had been martyred in the upsurge in violence.

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