ISRAEL DETAINED OVER 1,600 PALESTINIAN PRISONERS IN 2019
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The report, issued to correspond with Prisoners’ Day, also showed that there are 500 Palestinians held in administrative detention without trial or charge.
BY MAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN
A woman holds a picture of a Palestinian prisoner held in an Israeli jail, during a rally marking Palestinian Prisoners' Day, in Bethlehem in the Israeli occupied West Bank April 17, 2019. (photo credit: MUSSA QAWASMA / REUTERS)
Israel has detained around 1,600 Palestinians, including 230 children and 40 women, since the start of 2019, according to a report released this week by the Palestine Liberation Organization’s Department of Public Diplomacy and Policy.
The report, issued to correspond with Prisoners’ Day, also showed that there are 500 Palestinians held in administrative detention with...