Palestinian institutions concerned with prisoners’ affairs said on Wednesday that the number of prisoners and detainees in Israeli jails has risen to 11,100 as of early September.

This came according to a joint statement issued by the Prisoners’ Club and Al-Dameer Foundation for Human Rights (non-governmental), and the Prisoners’ Affairs Commission affiliated with the Palestine Liberation Organization (governmental), a copy of which was obtained by Anadolu Agency.

The number of prisoners until early August was about 10,800 detainees according to a previous statement by the same institutions.

The statement clarified that “the total number of prisoners and detainees in Israeli occupation prisons until early September exceeds 11,100.”

It pointed out that this number “does not include detainees held in camps affiliated with the occupation army.”

It mentioned that this “is the highest number since the outbreak of the Al-Aqsa Intifada in 2000, based on documented data available to the institutions.”

Among the detainees are 49 women, including two prisoners from the Gaza Strip, and 400 children under the age of 18, according to the statement.

The statement said that among the detainees are “3,577 administrative detainees (without charge),” noting that “administrative detainees represent the highest percentage compared to the numbers of arrested, sentenced prisoners and those classified as illegal fighters.”

The statement mentioned that “2,662 prisoners in jails are classified as illegal fighters,” clarifying that this number “does not include all Gaza detainees held in camps affiliated with the occupation army.”

Since the start of ground battles in the Gaza Strip on October 27, 2023, the Israeli army has arrested thousands of Palestinians, including children, women, and health and civil defense teams, releasing a small number of them later, who showed signs of torture and starvation.

Human rights organizations in Israel have previously published several reports regarding torture, starvation, and medical neglect suffered by Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, unlike Israeli detainees released by Hamas from Gaza, who appeared in good health, with some praising their captors’ treatment.

Alongside the genocide war on Gaza, the Israeli army and settlers have escalated their attacks in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, resulting in the killing of at least 1,017 Palestinians, injuring about 7,000 others, and arresting more than 18,500, according to Palestinian data.

With U.S. support, Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza since October 7, 2023, leaving 63,746 Palestinian martyrs, 161,245 injured, mostly children and women, over 9,000 missing, hundreds of thousands displaced, and famine that killed 367 Palestinians including 131 children.