Palestine Center for Prisoners Studies said, on Monday, that the Israeli occupation authorities released 554 decisions of administrative detention during the past 5 months of 2021.
Riyad al-Ashqar, head of the center, stated that the Israeli occupation tended to release decisions of administrative detention as a policy of collective punishment for the Palestinians for their solidarity with the families threatened of eviction in Jerusalem, and their refusal to the latest Israeli military attack on Gaza.
He mentioned that the detention decisions focused on the Islamic, national leaders, activists, opinion leaders, and those the occupation forces accused them of being investigators of violent acts in the streets of Jerusalem.
Al-Ashqar noted that 324 decisions were renewal decisions for a further period of 2-6 months; 5 of them reached some ex-prisoners and 230 released for new prisoners.
"The number of prisoners of administrative detention in the occupation prisons reached more than 500 prisoners; most of them spent different periods inside the prisons and were rearrested; 8 were deputies of the Legislative Council, 2 women, and 3 minors," al-Ashqar said.
He confirmed that the detention policy is a tool of collective punishment against the Palestinians as the occupation uses it intensively with no consideration to the international laws.
Despite the international warning of the Israeli occupation's abuse of the administrative detentions law and its non-commitment to the international criteria of applying this kind of detention, it did not stop releasing detention decisions against the Palestinian prisoners.
Al-Ashqar considered administrative detention as a criminal policy that aims at draining the Palestinians' years behind the cells without any legal basis.
He called on the international society and its legal institutes which put the conditions of using this kind of detention to act and stop depleting the Palestinians' ages without accuses and to force Israel to stop the brutal policy of administrative detention.
Source : Safa