About 500 Palestinian detainees held in Israeli prisons without charge or trial are continuing their open-ended boycott of Israeli military courts for the 67th consecutive day.
The detainees started their strike in protest against their arbitrary detention as well as due to the increasing use of administrative detention orders by the Israeli occupation authorities.
Head of the Prisoners’ and Ex-Prisoners’ Commission Issa Qaraqe called for mobilizing support for the administrative detainees’ cause and for exposing the incessant Israeli crimes against Palestinian prisoners.
“Israel is the only entity in the world that imprisons civilians without fair trials” he said.
Israel’s widely condemned policy of administrative detention allows detention of Palestinian detainees without charge or trial for renewable intervals usually ranging between three and six months based on undisclosed evidence that even a detainee’s lawyer is barred from viewing.
Nearly 6500 Palestinian detainees are locked up in Israeli dungeons among them 450 administrative prisoners.
More than 52000 administrative detention orders have been issued by the Israeli occupation authorities against Palestinian detainees since 1967.
