Prisoners society: March saw 80 detentions in Hebron

MA'AN
The Palestinian Prisoners Society in Hebron released a report documenting 80 arrests and detentions carried out by the Israeli army against city residents during the month of March.

Nineteen of the 80 were under 16 years of age, including brothers Amir and Hasen Al-Muhtaseb held for 12 days each, and brothers Ibrahim and Sharif Abu Ei’sha, who were assaulted by settlers and detained during a raid on their home that involved the firing of gas canisters and sound bombs, the report said.

While some of the detainees were held for one to three days and questioned, at least 22 were transferred from military bases to centers in Ashkelon and Russian compound in Jerusalem for extensive interrogation, the report said.

Eighty-eight of the detainees were men, with 13-year-old Suhad Eiwiewi and 34-year-old A’lieya’Abed Al-Majid Al-Muhtaseb, accounting for the final two detentions. Eiwiewi was accused of throwing stones at settlers, and was detained for seven hours, while Al-Mujtaseb remains in detention on charges of attempting to stab an Israeli soldier stationed at the military point in front of the Ibrahimi Mosque in the Old City of Hebron.

The prisoners society condemned the mass of arrests, noting numbers had doubled over average number of detentions, and called all of the seizures of Palestinians by Israeli forces inside Hebron illegal.