Eid al-Adha begins on Wednesday while 360 Palestinian children and 84 female prisoners remain held in Israeli prisons, away from their families, according to the Palestinian Prisoners Society.
In a statement issued for the holiday, the head of the non-governmental organisation, Abdullah Al-Zaghari, said the detainees were among around 9,400 Palestinian prisoners held by Israel.
Al-Zaghari said the child detainees included three girls, while the female prisoners included dozens of mothers who were “taken away from their children and families”, depriving their children of “warmth and their natural right to a safe life”.
He added that Israel continued to deprive more than 9,400 Palestinian and Arab prisoners and detainees of “their freedom and human life” inside prisons and detention camps, amid what he described as an “organised genocidal policy”.
He said prisoners were being targeted “in an unprecedented manner” through “a comprehensive system of torture, repression and systematic abuse”, adding that more than 100 prisoners and detainees had died since the start of the Gaza war, with the identities of 89 of them announced so far.
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