The number of Palestinian minors held in administrative detention increased to 12 as the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) has issued hundreds of administrative detention orders since the beginning of 2023.
The director of Palestine Center for Prisoners’ Studies Riyad Al-Ashqar affirmed that the IOA has been escalating issuing administrative detention orders against Palestinian minors adding that four Palestinian minors were held in administrative detention this May.
“Six-month administrative detention orders were issued against the Palestinian minors Bara’ Saqr 17 Bassam Abul Asal 17 and Mouad al-Haj 16” Al-Ashqar underlined adding that Samid Khalaf 16 was issued an administrative detention order for four months.
Al-Ashqar revealed that the number of Palestinian administrative detainees increased to 1030 in recent months calling on all the international institutions to act urgently to end the IOA policy of administrative detention.
Administrative detention which is a crime against international law is incarceration without trial or charge and is widely used by the IOA against the Palestinians solely at the pretext that a person plans to commit a future offense.
