Currently Online 
Dozens of children among 530 arrested by Israeli forces in West Bank last month: Prisoner groups
At least 60 children and 18 women were among 530 Palestinians arrested by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank in April, according to Palestinian prisoner organisations.
Israeli military operations and arrests mainly focused on the governorates of Tulkarem and Jenin, a statement released jointly by the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainee Affairs, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society and the Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association.
“This has been accompanied by severe beatings, abuse, and terrorism, including children and women,” the groups said.
The number of arrests in the West Bank since the beginning of Israel’s war in Gaza has reached about 17,000, the statement read.
“This figure includes those arrested and kept in detention by the occupation, as well as those subsequently released. It also does not include the number of arrests in Gaza, which is estimated in the thousands,” it added.
Gaza detainees face ‘systematic abuse and torture’ in Israeli prisons
The Gaza-based Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) says abuses against prisoners from the Gaza Strip are “an integral component of Israel’s genocide against Palestinians”.
In a new report based on the testimonies of 100 former Palestinian detainees, the rights group detailed a number of abuses including beatings, electrocution, and sexual and psychological violence.
PCHR said “detainees were subjected to inhumane conditions and extreme forms of physical and psychological ill-treatment” similar to those documented at the US-run prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
“These acts were executed with the intent to destroy the Palestinian population of Gaza,” the rights group said, adding that Palestinian detainees were arrested and tortured “solely on the basis of their identity”.
“PCHR also collected several genocidal statements made by members of the Israeli military during their interactions with the detainees, featuring the destruction of Gaza and the eradication of its people,” it said.
“These statements and the patterns of conduct of the direct perpetrators show their full awareness of the harm they were inflicting and their intention for it to have enduring consequences for the Palestinians of Gaza, far beyond their period of detention.
