Israeli forces arrested 1,228 Palestinians in April, including 156 and 11 , Palestinian prisoners' support organizations said in a joint statement on Monday.
The month of April witnessed the highest rate of arrests by Israeli forces , the statement released by the Palestinian Prisoners' Club, Addameer Association for Prisoners' Support, the Palestinian Higher Commission for Prisoners Affairs and the Wadi Hilweh Information Centre in Jerusalem said.
The statement specified that during the same period, Israeli forces issued 68 new and 86 renewal orders of current .
"This can be explained by the escalation of events in April, especially in Jenin and Jerusalem," Ayah Shreiteh, the spokesperson for the Palestinian Prisoners' Club told °®Âþµº.
"The number includes the hundreds of Palestinians arrested during the Israeli settlers' in the holy month of Ramadan," Shreiteh noted.
Israeli police arrested 781 Palestinians during the month of Ramadan , according to figures released by the Israeli Knesset earlier in May.
The Palestinian detainees' Families' Committee in Jerusalem had previously told °®Âþµº that over half of the have been released.
On Monday, the Israeli army announced that it had arrested 11 Palestinians during several raids across the West Bank. Palestinian sources also documented 11 injuries.
"Two youngsters were injured in their backs by rubber bullets," Mahdi Hamdan, a local resident of the village of Jifna, north of Ramallah, told °®Âþµº.
"The Israeli army also confiscated several security cameras but did not arrest anyone in the village, but continued their way to Birzeit [1km away] and ," Hamdan added.
Abdallah Allolu, an undergraduate student at Birzeit University, was among the detainees, the Prisoners' Club affirmed.
Israeli forces also arrested two Palestinians in their twenties in the villages of Rummanah and Zababdeh , after confrontations with local youth, in which one Palestinian was injured.
Further arrests were carried out in the Balata refugee camp in Nablus, in the village of Taqwa, near Bethlehem, and in southern Hebron.
Over since 1967. Currently, around 4,650 Palestinians remain in Israeli jails, including 170 minors, 32 women and 600 administrative detainees, held without charges, .