Before 7 Oct 2023, the IDF was holding 5,200 Palestinians incommunicado, including 170 children. The only way the Palestinians could get their uncles, fathers, brothers, cousins, or sons out of IDF detention was the 7 Oct 2023 attack to seize hostages for a prisoner swap. Thanks to D/Mossad David Barnea, two such swaps took place in Nov 2023.
After 7 Oct 2023, the IDF conducted mass arrests of Palestinians, like the 1919 Palmer Raids in the US.
Israeli security forces arrest a Palestinian outside Jerusalem's Old City on Friday, 13 Oct 2023 [Mahmoud Illean / AP Photo]
Sources:
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/11/israel-opt-horrifying-cases-of-torture-and-degrading-treatment-of-palestinian-detainees-amid-spike-in-arbitrary-arrests/
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2023/10/21/number-of-palestinian-prisoners-in-israel-doubles-to-10000-in-two-weeks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli%E2%80%93Palestinian_prisoner_exchange
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