RAMALLAH, April 17, 2016 (WAFA) – About 7,000 Palestinians detainees, including 400 minors and 69 women, are currently incarcerated in Israeli jails, said the Detainees and Ex-Detainees Commission and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS), in a joint statement on the occasion of the Palestinian Prisoner’s Day.

The statement said Israel’s arbitrary detention practices target all members of Palestinian society, including children, youth, elderly, women, mothers, spouses, the ill, disabled, academics, law-makers, ministers, leaders, students, writers, and artists.

The report said, 750 detainees are being held in administrative detention by Israeli authorities without charge or trial, based on the so-called “secret file provided by the occupation intelligence agency.”

Regarding the number of sick Sick Detainees in Israeli jails, the organizations said more than 700 Palestinian political prisoners and detainees, including dozens of disabled, suffer from various physical and mental illnesses due to ill treatment, poor detention conditions, and the prison services’ systematic policy of medical negligence.

It said there were numerous cases in which Palestinian detainees were subjected to physical and psychological torture by Israeli prison authorities, either during detention or interrogation.

According to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), “Each year the 17th of April marks the anniversary of the release of Palestinian prisoners in the first prisoner swap deal of 17 April 1974. This date is commemorated annually in support of those Palestinian who remain in Israeli custody.”

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