Israel arrested almost 7,000 Palestinians during 2015
31-12-2015 12:54
The PLO’s Palestinian Prisoners’ Committee (PPC) issued a report on Monday which revealed that the Israeli occupation authorities arrested 6,830 Palestinians during 2015, Al-Resalah newspaper has reported. This is an “unprecedented” rate of detention, it said, the like of which was not seen during the previous uprisings in 1987 and 2000. The PPC added that it is believed that all 6,830 of the prisoners experienced at least one kind of verbal or physical abuse.