400 Palestinians arrested in Sept.

The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) arrested during September 400 Palestinians including 55 children and eight women, PIC quoted Palestine Center for Prisoners’ Studies as saying.

Spokesman for the center Riyad al-Ashqar said that seven Palestinians, from Gaza Strip, were among the reported arrests including two fishermen and two academics.

The Palestinian MP Abdulrahman Zeidan was also detained during September after IOF forces violently stormed his house in Tulkarem.

55 Palestinian children were also rounded up over the past month, including a 10-year-old boy from the occupied old city of ('Jerusalem'), while eight women were arrested including a mother and her infant during her visit to her imprisoned husband.

During the same reported period, 100 administrative detention orders were issued against Palestinian prisoners including academics, while a life term imprisonment was imposed on the prisoner Amjed al-Najjar for being allegedly involved in an anti-occupation attack.

Over the past month, Israeli jailers intensified their sanctions and punitive measures against Palestinian prisoners.