Report: Israeli forces detained more than 400 Palestinians last month

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - The Palestinian prisoner center for studies said that the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) detained more than 400 Palestinians last January in the West Bank, Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip.In a report on Saturday, the center affirmed that 75 children and minors, and eight women were among the detainees, noting that most of the detentions took place in the West Bank and Jerusalem, and only seven were kidnapped from Gaza.According to its report, the IOF carried out its detentions in the West Bank and Jerusalem during 260 security campaigns in cities, villages, towns and refugee camp. The report did not state whether some of the detainees are still in detention or have been released.The report noted that a 16-year-old minor from Jerusalem named Obeida Amer went on hunger strike for two days during the reporting month in protest at his transfer from Ofek jail to another prison used for adult detainees imprisoned for security issues.The Israeli prison authority, in turn, carried out 17 raids on rooms and sections in its jails last month, during which prison soldiers suppressed prisoners, wounded three of them and locked up 16 others in solitary confinement.The number of Palestinian hunger strikers rose to six detainees after two prisoner patients Hosam Amr and Mousa Sufan declared their hunger strike last month to protest their isolation in solitary confinement for five months and to demand appropriate medical care.The Israeli occupation authority also issued more than 38 administrative detention orders against Palestinians and extended the administrative imprisonment of over 26 others last month./149