Sunday, April 16, 2017
Elder of ZiyonIsraeli authorities have detained approximately one million Palestinians since the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948 and the subsequent occupation of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip in 1967, according to a joint statement released Saturday by the Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS), and the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS).I've been following this fake statistic since the claim from similar groups that 750,000 had been arrested by 2009.
(Update: Don't be fooled by the word "detained," in the past they have said "arrested" explicitly and the press release from the PCBS says "cases of arrest" in English and Arabic.)
Last year they also claimed a million arrested, so I guess no one was arrested this year at all. As I wrote then:
The April 2015 report from the same groups said that the number of Palestinians arrested from 1967 to 2015 was 850,000.
150,000 arrests in one year?
In 2014, they said the number was 800,000.
That number had been pretty constant since 2006, when they claimed 700,000.
As I have shown in the past, these numbers are completely made up.
150,000 arrests in a year would mean over 400 a day and nearly 3000 arrests a week.
If you look at arrest statistics from Palestinian sources themselves, they range from a few hundred to a few thousand a year, not the 50,000-150,000 that these committees and the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics claim.
These statistics are complete fiction. And the Western media regurgitates them over and over again.
It also shows how unreliable the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics is. If they lie about this, then they could be lying about, oh, I don't know, maybe population?
