Thursday, 30 September 2021 (YJC)_ The Center for the Study of Palestinian Prisoners states that 2,194 Palestinian children have been martyred since the Al-Aqsa Intifada in 2000.
On the occasion of the 21st anniversary of the Al-Aqsa Intifada, the Center for the Study of Palestinian Prisoners of War announced in a report the number of detainees and the martyrdom of Palestinians during these years.
The report states that since the Al-Aqsa Intifada took place in September 2000, 130,000 Palestinians, including 2,644 women and 6,500 children, have been detained.
According to the report, the occupying Israeli regime has tried over the years to defeat the Palestinian resistance by pursuing a policy of detention, detaining tens of thousands of people, especially after the re-occupation of the West Bank in 2002. The intifada took place with only 700 prisoners in the prisons of the occupying regime.
According to Al-Quds Al-Arabi newspaper, in the early years after the Al-Aqsa Intifada, the Zionist regime increased the detention of Palestinians to the point that the number of Palestinian prisoners reached 12,000 at one point in time.
The Zionists also detained 2364 Palestinian women and girls during these years, and although not a single child was imprisoned by the regime during the Al-Aqsa Intifada, the number of detained children during these years rose to more than 18,500 children under the age of 18. They were shot while in custody.
The Palestinian Center for the Study of Prisoners of War reports that the number of Palestinian children held captive is currently 220, who are being held in O'Far, Majdu, Al-Damoun, and detention centers.
Also, since the beginning of the Al-Aqsa Intifada, 2,194 children have been martyred, most of them from Gaza.
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