Palestinian researcher, Abdul-Nasser Farawna, stated Saturday that Israeli soldiers kidnapped 312 Palestinians, including dozens of teens, during the month of July.
Farawna added that the soldiers kidnapped 3372 Palestinians since the beginning of this year, among them dozens of women and children.
Most of the kidnapped residents are from the West Bank, while hundreds were kidnapped during the war of Gaza.
Farawna also said that the Israeli Navy kidnapped dozens of Palestinian fishermen in Palestinian territorial waters in the Gaza Strip.
Yet, the researcher stated that July witnessed the least incidents of kidnappings as in comparison to previous months.
He also said that the Israeli army kidnaps Palestinians with the aim to harm different sectors of the society, including but not limited to harming the economy, social life, educational life, in addition to harming the health and psychological conditions of the residents by placing them under extreme conditions and torturing them during interrogation.
Farawna added that there are hundreds of Palestinians who are still suffering from health and psychological issues due to abuse and torture they were subjected while imprisoned by Israel.
Report: Israel kidnapped 312 Palestinians last month |
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GAZA, (PIC)-- A Palestinian report said that the IOF troops kidnapped 312 Palestinian citizens during last July at a rate of 11 Palestinians everyday. The report, which was prepared by specialist in prisoners’ affairs Abdelnasser Farwana, stated that the total of Palestinians who had been kidnapped since the beginning of the year rose to 3,372 citizens, dozens of them were children and women. Farwana affirmed that Israel pursues the policy of kidnapping as a daily and temperamental tradition or as a means to take revenge, pressure or blackmail, adding that most of the kidnappings were arbitrary and not carried out for security reasons as Israel alleged. In another related context, the Israeli police admitted Saturday that it detained 154 Palestinian workers from the West Bank last week at the pretext of entering and working in the 1948 occupied lands without permits. The police said they transported the detainees to their residential areas in the West Bank after they were interrogated and signed pledges not to enter the occupied lands. |
