The Israeli authorities recently issued administrative detention orders against 49 Palestinians including a minor the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said on Sunday.
PPS attorney Mahmoud Halabi said 20 of the 49 detainees received renewed administrative detention orders whereas the rest received an order for the first time.
The detention of seventeen-year-old Layth Abu Khermah who was detained on September 20 2017 was also renewed for another three months.
The sentences ranged in time between three to six renewable months.
Israel’s widely condemned policy of administrative detention allows detention of Palestinians 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.
At least 6500 Palestinians are locked up in Israeli penitentiaries among them 350 children six minor girls nine MPs and 700 sick detainees.
