Israel arrests 370 Palestinians in May
June 6, 2011 - 0:0
GAZA, (PIC) -- A report prepared by Gaza's prisoner affairs ministry says 370 Palestinians were arrested during raids in the Palestinian territories in May 2011.
Those arrested include 40 minors, five women, two Palestinian Legislative Council members, and 20 foreign pro-Palestinian activists.Al-Khalil city in southern West Bank was a main focus for arrests, with 75 of its locals nabbed.
Also last month, Palestinians held in six Israeli prisons declared an extensive hunger strike in a bid to curb the common policy of isolating prisoners by the Israeli Prison Service, reads the report by Riyadh al-Ashkar, the ministry's media director.