(MENAFN- Jordan News Agency) Gaza, Sept. 14 (Petra)--Israeli occupation authorities arrested some 522 Palestinians in August, according to a monthly report by Palestinian prisoners' affairs organisations and rights groups.
A joint report issued by the Palestinian Prisoners Club, Al-Mezan Centre for Human Rights, the Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association (Addameer) and the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs (CDA), indicated that most of the Israeli arrests took place in the occupied West Bank and the besieged Gaza Strip.
The Palestinian detainees include 130 minors and 16 women, the report added.
On the number of administrative detainees, the report pointed out that Israel has issued about 134 administrative orders, 61 of which were new and 73 were issued against Palestinian prisoners for the second and third times.
The rights group called on the international community to immediately intervene to compel Israel to respect the rights of the Palestinian people.
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