article_snippet.sent: Prisoners Day is marked every year in solidarity with the more than 6,000 Palestinians in Israeli jails. '
article_snippet.sent: We will not leave We prisoners in jail alone,' rally organiser Abdullah Abu Rahma said. '
article_snippet.sent: We will defend our prisoners right to be released, because the majority of our prisoners have been arrested illegally by Israeli forces.'
article_snippet.sent: With Israel having arrested some 800,000 Palestinians in the occupied territories since 1967 - equivalent to 40 percent of the male population - almost every Palestinian family has been affected.
article_snippet.sent: During the last round of US-backed peace talks in 2013 and 2014, Israel freed dozens of long-term inmates.
article_snippet.sent: But after the negotiations broke down, and following the kidnap and murder of three Israeli teenagers in the West Bank, Israel arrested hundreds more.
article_snippet.sent: The current number of Palestinian prisoners is the highest for at least five years, according to figures from rights groups.
highlights_snippet.sent: Israel has arrested around 800,000 Palestinians in the occupied territories since 1967 with 6,000 currently being held .