RAMALLAH, April17, 2011 (WAFA)- Marking the anniversary of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, Palestinian Government Media Center said that more than 6,000 Palestinians are still under detention; including 37 women, 245 children and 12 members of the Legislative Council.

In a statement, the Palestinian Ministry of Detainees and ex-Detainees’ Affairs said that since the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian Territory in 1967, the Israeli authorities have systematically violated the most basic rights granted by international and human rights conventions through inhumane treatment, restrictions on movements, killings, deportation, and detention.

According to the Palestinian Ministry of Detainees and Ex-detainees’ data, today there are more than 6,000 Palestinian under detention dispersed to 17 investigations and detention centers as well as prisons. Israel has detained since 1967 more than 750,000 Palestinians, including more than 12,000 women and tens of thousands of children. Since the Second Intifada in 2000, Israel has detained more than 7,000 Palestinians.

It showed that 302 of current detainees were arrested before the Oslo Agreement in 1993 and have been in Israeli jails since then; 136 of them have been under Israeli detention for more than 20 years, 41 detainees have spent more than 25 years in prison, and four of them have spent more than 30 years in Israeli prisons.

It continued that the number of martyrs in Israeli jails due to torture, deprivation of health treatment or deliberate killing has amounted to 202 since 1967 while 70 of these martyrs were killed due to torture, 51 due to deprivation of health treatment, 74 by direct murder after detention and seven were shot by soldiers and prison guards.

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