The Israeli Occupation Authorities (IOA) issued Tuesday a four-month administrative detention order against the leader in Hamas Movement Shaker Amara.
Family members quoted the lawyer as affirming that Amara was held in administrative detention for four “renewable” months.
Amara 55 was arrested on July 23 from his house in Aqbat Jabr refugee camp near Jericho during an Israeli large-scale raid and arrest campaign.
A court hearing is scheduled to be held in the coming days to endorse the administrative detention order the sources added.
The family pointed out that Amara who spent more than 11 years in Israeli jails in separate arrests suffers a number of health problems and needs special health care.
A practice dating back to the British Mandate the decision to hold a prisoner in administrative detention is issued by the military commander based on a secret file. Both the lawyer and the detainee are not allowed to know the content of this file.
Since 1967 around 800000 Palestinians have been arrested. In March 2017 the number of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails reached 6300 including 500 administrative detainees according to Addameer the Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association.
