Tag: Administrative Detention

  • Without Trial: Administrative detention of Palestinians by Israel and the Incarceration of Unlawful Combatants Law

    B’Tselem 16 October 2009 Report published by B’Tselem and HaMoked: Center for the Defence of the Individual Under international law, a state may detain a resident of occupied territory without trial to prevent danger only in extremely exceptional cases. Israel, however, holds hundreds of Palestinians for months and years under administrative orders, without prosecuting them.…

  • Israeli forces arrest Palestinian resident of Beit Ommar

    Palestine Solidarity Project 8 July 2009 Yunis Al Alami, a 20 year old resident of Beit Ommar, was arrested by the Israeli army at 2 AM this morning in a military house raid. 3 jeeps carrying approximately 12 soldiers arrived at his home in the middle of the night, arresting him without warrant, charges or…

  • Inhumane treatment of Palestinian prisoner

    30 June 2009 The 23 year old Palestinian women, Somod from Nablus, was recently released after having been imprisoned in Israel for four and a half years. Despite her young age, she suffered from inhumane treatment such as rape-threats, isolation, and denial of access to basic sanitation facilities. She went to court as many as…

  • Nablus residents rally on Prisoners’ Day

    16 April 2009 Around 400 residents of Nablus held a demonstration in the city center to mark Prisoners’ Day in recognition of all former and current political prisoners held in Israeli jails.  Leaders of several political parties and prisoner associations gave speeches praising the steadfastness of the approximately 10,000 prisoners currently held in Israeli prisons…

  • Israeli forces arrest 27 youth in Beit Ommar

    11th March 2009, Beit Ommar village, Hebron region: 27 youth arrested during ongoing closure of Beit Ommar village 27 residents of Beit Ommar village in the Hebron District of the southern West Bank, have been arrested by Israeli forces while the village remains under curfew with a large-scale military operation taking place. At approximately 12am…