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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Politics
Zena Al Tahhan

Israel doubles number of Palestinian prisoners to 10,000 in two weeks

Israeli security forces arrest a Palestinian outside Jerusalem's Old City on Friday, October 13, 2023 [Mahmoud Illean/AP Photo]

Ramallah, occupied West Bank – Israel has arrested so many Palestinians in the two weeks since the start of its bombardment of the besieged Gaza Strip that it has doubled the number of Palestinians in its custody.

There were about 5,200 Palestinians in Israeli prisons prior to October 7 when the Palestinian armed resistance group Hamas launched an attack on Israel, which responded almost immediately with a relentless bombing campaign.

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