At least 11,040 Palestinian held inside Israeli prisons

GAZA, Sep. 02 (YPA)-  A number of Palestinian prisoners, who are being held inside Israeli prisons, have reached 11,040 by early September, according to data published by the Israeli human rights organization HaMoked, based on official data from the Prison Service.

HaMoked stated in a statement that more than half of the detainees being held outside the scope of regular judicial procedures, including 3,577 administrative detainees and 2,662 classified as “unlawful combatants”, most of whom were arrested during the ongoing Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, which began on October 7, 2023.

According to the organization, the occupation authorities issued a decision declaring all detainees from Gaza as “unlawful combatants”, a designation that allows them to be detained indefinitely without indictment or a fair trial, based on secret files from the security services.

Administrative detention, on the other hand, allows Palestinians to be held for renewable periods of up to six months or more under the pretext of “security concerns”, even in the absence of sufficient legal evidence.

In this context, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club stated that prisoners are subjected to ongoing repression inside prisons, particularly in the Negev detention center, where prison guards carry ed out weekly raids using police dogs and rubber bullets. These attacks often occur in the early morning or late at night.

The Club noted growing fears within prisons of a resurgence of scabies at the same rate it witnessed in detention centers several months ago, in light of medical neglect and harsh detention conditions.

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