Thousands of Palestinians are held without charge under Israeli detention policy
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105 hostages Palestinians approximately 2,500 detainees 240 Palestinian prisoners families Philip Luther Israeli settlers
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Hostilities between Israel and Hamas resumed today.
Hostilities between Israel and Hamas resumed today as the weeklong cease-fire came to an end.
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During the short pause in fighting, a total of 105 hostages captured by Hamas were freed in exchange for 240 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli custody.
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Around 2,500 Palestinians are held without any formal charges under administrative detention.
However, even with those hundreds of Palestinians released, the overall number of Palestinians taken into Israeli custody has increased since the start of the war, including around 2,500 who are held without any formal charges under a policy known as administrative detention.
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Administrative detention is a form of detention whereby individuals are detained by the state without any intent to prosecute them in a trial, and they're held on the basis of secret security information that the detainee and their lawyer cannot review.
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Israel has been using administrative detention since 1967.
Israel has been using this form of detention since its occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip - so back to 1967.
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The detainee is brought before a military judge.
The detainee is brought before a military judge.
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The military judge can impose a six-month administrative detention order.
The military judge can impose a - normally it's a six-month administrative detention order, and it's up to that military officer to then decide whether that detention is extended.
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Detainees are held in Israeli prisons in Israel.
Well, the first thing to say is that detainees are held in Israeli prisons in Israel.
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Families usually have a major problem visiting detainees.
And in Israel, their families usually have a major problem visiting them, and so that in itself is a cruel system and exacerbates the conditions.
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Now, the situation has been exacerbated by the Israeli authorities' imposition of a state of emergency in prisons since the hostilities started in October.
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So that has given Israeli authorities and prisons virtually unrestrained powers to hold detainees in overcrowded cells and impose, in some cases, collective punishment measures such as cutting off water or electricity to their cells.
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Israel does indeed have the right and the duty to protect its citizens and not only its citizens but Palestinians if you live in areas that are controlled by Israel.
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People are being held on grounds that they cannot challenge.
But these are people who are being held on grounds that they cannot challenge, and that's the real problem.
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Administrative detention is discriminatory.
It's the fact that it's discriminatory.
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Israeli settlers attack Palestinians, sometimes aided and abetted by Israeli security forces.
I mean, one of the major concerns in terms of security in the West Bank is Israeli settlers who are then attacking Palestinians, in some cases aided and abetted by Israeli security forces.
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Israeli settlers are not being subjected to administrative detention.
They are not being subjected to administrative detention.
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In some cases, Israeli settlers are not being subjected to any form of scrutiny.
In some cases, they're not being subjected to any form of scrutiny, and that's why there's such a problem here.
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