The media advisor to the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, Hassan Abed Rabbu, said on Monday that the number of detainees infected with the Coronavirus inside the Israeli jails has risen to 17.

He explained in a press release that the increase in the number came after the infection of the two detainees, Hassan Shehadeh and Salim Idris, who were held in Ofer jail.

That followed the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society announcement on Sunday that Shahadeh from Bethlehem and Idris from Hebron were infected with the virus.

Among the 17, two released detainees whose infection was discovered a day after their release from Israeli jails.