The Palestinian Commission of Detainees’ and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs said that the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) issued 100 administrative detention orders and extensions against Palestinian prisoners during last July.
The IOA ordered and renewed the imprisonment of those detainees administratively for periods ranging from two to six months according to the Commission.
Currently there are 530 administrative detainees in Israeli jails.
Administrative detention is incarceration without trial or charge based on allegations that a person plans to commit a future offense. It has no time limit and the evidence on which it is based seemingly does not exist.
Israel an occupying power uses such type of detention extensively and routinely as a punitive measure against the Palestinians in the occupied territories and has used it to hold thousands of them for lengthy periods of time.
