Israeli occupation policemen shot dead a Palestinian man who allegedly attempted to stab paramilitary police at an entrance to Jerusalem's walled Old City (Photo: Reuters)
Israeli occupation authorities have arrested more than 1,000 Palestinians and Arab Israelis since the October 1 surge in violence, the Palestinian Prisoners Club said Sunday.
Most of them were young men and women, the Ramallah-based aid group said.
The most arrests -- 221 -- occurred in the southern West Bank city of Hebron.
Next was Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem with 201, followed by the West Bank city of Ramallah with 138.
A further 160 Arab Israeli were arrested in connection with unrest, the group said.
Among the Palestinians, 87 of those arrested were placed in administrative detention, a measure which allows imprisonment without trial for six-month periods renewable indefinitely.
The club said that more than 6,000 Palestinians are currently imprisoned by Israel, 420 of them in administrative detention.
Since the start of the month 53 Palestinians and one Arab Israeli have been killed by the Israeli occupation forces in the upsurge in violence, including alleged attackers or attempted attackers. At least eight Israelis have died.
* The story was edited by Ahram Online.
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