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Mon 23 Oct 2023 2:20 pm - Jerusalem Time

Israel issues a decision to temporarily amend administrative detention

The Commission for Ex-Prisoners' Affairs reported on Monday that the Israeli occupation authorities issued a military order with temporary amendments regarding administrative detention.


The authority stated that the first decision is to increase the period of detention of the detainee to examine the possibility of issuing an administrative detention order, to become 6 days instead of 72 hours. The second decision is to amend the detainee’s presentation to the first confirmation session to become 12 days instead of 8 days previously.


In this context, the Prisoner’s Club stated that a large portion of those who were arrested after the outbreak of the aggression on Gaza were transferred to administrative detention until today, and the total number of orders issued amounted to more than 300 orders, including new orders and renewal orders for former detainees, but most of them are new orders. Issued against new detainees.


He pointed out that since the beginning of the aggression, the number of arrests in the West Bank to date has reached (1,215) arrests, including Jerusalem, and the arrests were concentrated in the Hebron Governorate, where the total number of arrests exceeded about 370 arrests.


He continued: The level of abuse is very high, and the threats have reached the point of shooting, and using families as hostages, in addition to the large amounts of sabotage and destruction, while the majority of those arrested were severely beaten, causing some of them to suffer injuries as a result.


The Prisoner's Club confirmed that the occupation imposed laws and military orders, and implemented military orders, which only contribute to facilitating arrest operations, abusing detainees, and restricting the work of legal teams.


He added: There are no accurate updates available about the number of detainees until today, but the estimates available to institutions reach more than 6 thousand detainees, and this number does not include the number of workers whose detention the occupation announced, and those of Gaza workers who were arrested in the West Bank, and the occupation was in Earlier it was announced that it detained 4,000 workers from Gaza.


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Israel issues a decision to temporarily amend administrative detention