Occupied Palestine (The Inside Palestine) The Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) has said that there are about 850 Palestinian citizens, including seven children and two women, being held administratively, with no indictment or trial, in Israeli jails.
According to PPS, this number of administrative detainees is the largest in more than 10 years.
From the beginning of 2022 and until the end of November, the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) had issued more than 2,135 administrative orders against Palestinian citizens, PPS pointed out.
Many of these administrative detention orders were issued for the first time against prisoners and others were extensions to previous similar orders.
PPS said that the IOA recently extended administrative detention orders against dozens of detainees, including prisoners who already completed their sentences such as prisoner Jalalu-Addin an-Najjar from Silwad town in Ramallah.
Administrative detention is a procedure that allows the Israeli army to hold Palestinian prisoners indefinitely on alleged secret information without filing indictments against them or allowing them to stand trial.
Over the years, Israel has held thousands of Palestinians in administrative detention, for periods ranging from several months to several years.
Source: The Palestinian Information Center
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