The Office for Palestinian Prisoners and Former Prisoners announced that “Israeli authorities issued 153 administrative detention orders during June.”

In a press statement, the commission indicated that “these decisions include 58 decisions regarding new detainees and 95 decisions on renewal and extension”, noting that “they indicate that the occupying government continues to use this policy based on collective punishment for all Palestinian people.”

She pointed out that “the occupying authorities and the administration of places of deprivation of liberty claim that administrative detainees have secret files that can never be disclosed, and therefore the detainee does not know either the term of his sentence or the charge against him,” explaining that “administrative detainee often subject to extensions of detention more than once for periods of up to three months”. Or six or eight months, and sometimes up to a whole year.

Administrative detention is defined as the deprivation of liberty without charge or trial and depriving the detainee or his lawyer of the opportunity to examine physical evidence, which is a clear and unequivocal violation of the provisions of international humanitarian law, such that Israel is the only party in the world that practices this. politics.

It is worth noting that about 682 of the approximately 4,600 prisoners are held in occupational prisons under administrative detention orders, and the number of administrative detention orders since 1967 is estimated at more than 54,000 orders.