Fadwa Barghouti, member of Fatah Revolutionary Council, said on Tuesday that as many as 11,000 prisoners are detained in Israeli jails.

This number includes elected officials, 12-13-year-old children and women, who are enduring inhuman conditions, she added at a press conference in Rabat.

The spouse of the best-known Palestinian prisoner Marouane Barghouti underlined that the issue of Palestinian prisoners in Israel's jails "resumes the history and the cause of an occupied people and unites the whole Palestinian society".

She said the European Parliament had denounced the arrest and detention of her husband, calling for his release along with the other Palestinian prisoners.

Barghouti said the only options likely to resolve this issue lie in setting the prisoners free as part of serious negotiations with a serious interlocutor.

Abdellah Zghari, a former Palestinian prisoner, said Israel seeks to isolate the Palestinian people, hence the need to internationalise the struggle.

He noted that about 750,000 Palestinians have been arrested since the beginning of the occupation, that is around a third of the number of the Palestinian people.