Gaza, ALRAY - Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) arrested 400 Palestinians , 75 children and 8 women among them during last January , Palestinian Prisoners Center for Studies reported.
In a reported issued on Saturday the center explained that the IOF intensified its arresting campaign against Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza and noted that there was a sharp rise in the intrusions of Palestinians detainees cells by the Israeli special units.
According to the report the IOF arrested 7 Palestinians from Gaza , illustrating that two fisherman were arrested after destroying their boats while 3 young men were arrested near the border to the east of Gaza. It also reported that the IOF arrested two patients in their way to receive medical treatment inside the occupied West Bank.
Riyad al-Ashqar, Media spokesman for the Center made clear that the IOF carried out 260 storms against Palestinian towns and villages in the West Bank and arrested 70 children and 8 women.
The report noted that 35 children were arrested just form Hebron , illustrating that the child Obeida Asaid ,16, launched a hunger strike for two days asking for transferring him from Ofek civil prison.
It also reported that Israeli special forces stormed Palestinian detainees cells for 17 times during last month , three detainees were injured in section 3 in Rimon prison.
The IOF called the storm process " First Rain" noting that it is an ongoing campaign. It isolated 16 detainees in solitary confinement, while the number of hunger strikers up to 6.
Al-Ashqar explained in the report that the general health conditions of Palestinian detainees in the prisons are deteriorating severely highlighting the impacts of the medical negligence policy of Israel Prison Service (IPS) on the detainees .
He also explained that the IPS issued 38 new administrative detention orders and extended 26 other orders.