Israel increases the number of Palestinian prisoners to 10,000 in two weeks

About 5,200 Palestinians were in Israeli prisons before October 7 when Palestinian militants Hamas launched an attack against the Israeli government. Palestinian leaders say that the number of prisoners has now increased to 10,000 people. In the past two weeks, according to officials and human rights organizations, Israel has arrested 4,000 workers from Gaza who were working in Israel and is holding them in military camps. It has also arrested another 1,070 Palestinians in nighttime raids by the army in the West Bank and east of the occupied territories in Quds Tukuf. "Palestinian prisoners in Zionist prisons. People are being arrested 24 hours a day," Sahar Francis, head of the Addameer prisoner rights group based in Ramallah, said. He added that many Gazans are being held in the Sde Teyman military camp. , located near Be'er al-Sabe (Be'er Sheva) in the south of the Naqab desert.

Hundreds of others are being held in Ofer prison near Ramallah, and in Anatot military camp near the village of Anata east of occupied Quds by force. Palestinian lawyers and officials have described the suffering, the great injustice and the terrible conditions of the prisoners who are arrested and detained by the Quds forces. In a press conference on Thursday in Ramallah, the Head of the Palestinian Authority's Commission on Prisoners' Affairs, Qadura Fares, has said that the prisoners in the Zionist prisons are facing terrible and terrible conditions. Fares added that: "We were very reluctant to hold a meeting with the press to talk about another chapter of Israeli crimes, about what our male and female prisoners they are going through it in the occupied prisons, for fear of creating tension and anxiety among the families of the prisoners and our Palestinian people.

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