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7000 Palestinian prisoners are in Israeli jails

Headline: “The prisoners’ institutions: The occupation arrested 436 citizens last August”
“Institutions dealing with prisoners’ affairs – the [PLO] Commission of Prisoners and Released Prisoners’ Affairs, the [PA-funded] Prisoners’ Club, the Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, and the Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association – revealed yesterday, Monday [Oct. 3, 2016], that… the number of prisoners in the occupation’s prisons stands at 7,000 prisoners including 59 female prisoners, of which 12 are female minors, while the number of children stands at approximately 350 children in the Megiddo and Ofer Prisons. The number of administrative detainees stands at 7,000 prisoners, and in September [2016] 112 administrative detention orders were issued, including 44 new orders.”

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