Statistics released a joint statement on Saturday, April 15, 2017, just two days before Palestinian Prisoners Day. According to the statement, Israeli authorities have detained approximately one million Palestinians since Israels establishment in 1948.On the 17th, the day Palestinians mark Palestinian Prisoners' Day, around 1.500 Palestinian political prisoners launched a hunger strike. The movement began with the publication of the op-ed by Marwan Barghouthi in the NYT Why We Are on Hunger Strike in its international edition last weekend. It surely marked a new high point in Israel's international isolation - the Palestinian leader called Israel a "moral and political failure" - but enraged response by Israeli politicians in turn marks a new high point in hasbara, or propaganda on the nazi model. One Netanyahu minister, Michael Oren, until recently Israeli ambassador to Washington, has accused de newspaper of a "journalistic terror attack", while another accused Marwan Barghouthi of staging a "suicide terror attack" for leading the hunger strike.However, the hasbara can't and won't change facts.The Palestinian NGO Ma'an informed that Israel has 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 on April 15th by the Palestinian Committee of Prisoners Affairs, the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS), and the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS). As reported by Addameer, a Jerusalem-based prisoners support and human rights organization, roughly 6,300 Palestinian political prisoners are currently in Israeli prisons, including 500 being held in administrative detention (incarceration without charge or trial). Israel routinely uses this method of indefinite detention against Palestinians, particularly in the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt), holding prisoners for periods ranging from several months to several years. A January 2014 report from Addameer states that up to 40% of Palestinian males in the oPt have been arrested through Israeli military orders.The question of Palestinian prisoners is central for the Palestinian cause, the statement affirmed.The groups said that Israeli forces detained hundreds of thousands of Palestinians during the first and second intifadas, which they referred to as one of the most difficult historical stages" of Palestine. During the First Intifada, which lasted from Dec. 1987 until the Madrid Conference in 1991 aimed at reviving the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, scores of Palestinians were detained by Israeli forces as a result of the largely nonviolent uprising which relied on various campaigns of civil disobedience. In 2000, the Second Intifada broke out - known as the Al-Aqsa Intifada - after then Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in an act of provocation, causing heavy clashes to break out between Palestinians and Israeli forces, which developed into a full-scale uprising. By the time the uprising ended in 2005, Israeli authorities detained some 100,000 Palestinians, including 15,000 minors and 1,500 women, and 70 Palestinian lawmakers and former ministers. In addition, Israeli authorities issued some 27,000 administrative detention orders against Palestinians at the time - an Israeli policy of detention without charge or trial almost exclusively