About 500 Palestinian administrative detainees continue their boycott of the Israeli occupation courts for the 141st consecutive day Saturday to demand an end to the administrative detention policy.
The boycott of the occupation courts creates confusion within the Israeli prisons’ administrations and informs foreign delegations that visit those prisons every period of the issue of administrative detention thus highlighting it and conveying it to the world.
According to the Palestinian Center for Prisoners’ Studies the number of administrative detainees in Israeli prisons has recently risen reaching more than 600 administrative prisoners the highest since 2016.
Israel uses administrative detention as means of collective punishment against the Palestinian people without taking into consideration the caveats established by international law.
The Israeli occupation authorities usually take punitive measures against detainees who boycott their courts; such as deprivation of visitation and the renewal of administrative detention.
The administrative detainees announced the comprehensive and final boycott of all judicial proceedings related to administrative detention (judicial review appeal supreme) at the beginning of January 2022.
Administrative detention is detention without charge or trial and without allowing the detainee or his lawyer to inspect the evidence materials in clear violation of the provisions of international humanitarian law. Israel is the only government in the world that practices this policy.
The administrative detainee is often subjected to a renewal of the period of detention more than once for three six or eight months sometimes up to a full year and in some cases up to seven years.
