Israel arrested over 500 Palestinians in March

Israeli forces have arrested 509 Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Jerusalem al-Quds in the last month alone.

According to a joint report by Palestinian Prisoners Club, al-Mezan Center for Human Rights, Palestinian prisoners’ rights group Addameer and the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, the figure included 75 children, 13 women and five journalists.

Most of the detentions were reported in Jerusalem al-Quds where 160 Palestinians were arrested, according to the report.

The rights groups added that the Israeli regime also issued 111 administrative detention orders in March.

The new arrests have raised the number of Palestinians held in Israeli jails to 6,500, including 300 children and 62 female prisoners.

On Sunday, Israeli forces arrested three Palestinians during raids in the occupied Jerusalem al-Quds and the city of al-Khalil (Hebron) in the occupied West Bank.