Israel is violating international law by detaining hundreds of Palestinians, some of them for years without charge or trial, two leading human rights groups in the country have said. B’Tsalem and HaMoked released a report on Wednesday, saying that 335 Palestinians are being illegally detained by the Israeli military.
“Israel holds hundreds of Palestinians in prolonged detention based on undisclosed suspicions, without informing them what these suspicions are, without giving them an opportunity to defend themselves, and without notifying them when they will be released,” the report said.
The prisoners are being held in legal limbo under a practice known in Israel as “administrative detention”, which authorises the army to order the arrest and detention of Palestinians without allowing them access to the legal rights they could expect under civilian law.
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