Israeli occupation forces issued orders for imprisonment without charge or trial under administrative detention against 50 Palestinians in recent days, said Palestinian lawyer Mahmoud Halabi of the Palestinian Prisoners Society.
Among the Palestinians ordered to six months imprisonment without charge or trial was Khalida Jarrar, Palestinian national leader and leftist parliamentarian, as was fellow Palestinian Legislative Council member Ibrahim Dahbour, whose administrative detention was extended for 4 months. Palestinian student leader Kifah Quzmar‘s administrative detention was also renewed for an additional 4 months. Ghassan Zawahreh, former long-term hunger strike and the brother of Palestinian martyr Moataz Zawahreh, killed as he protested the occupation by Israeli occupation forces, was ordered to 6 more months in administrative detention.
There are approximately 500 Palestinians held under administrative detention orders out of 6,200 total Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails. Administrative detention orders are issued for one to six months at a time and are indefinitely renewable; Palestinians can spend years in prison with no charge and no trial under these orders.
Israel’s use of administrative detention violates international law and conventions, including the Geneva Conventions and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The administrative detention orders were issued against the following Palestinians:
1. Seifallah al-Hour, from al-Khalil, 4 months, renewal
2. Abdel-Rahman al-Zeer, from Qalandia, 4 months, renewal
3. Salam Jaradat, from Jenin, 6 months, renewal
4. Mohammed Abu Tami, from Jenin, 6 months, renewal
5. Bajis Suweiti, from al-Khalil, 3 months, renewal
6. Mohammed Ibrahim Yahya, from Jenin, 4 months, renewal
7. Ashraf Ghassan Jibril, from Qalqilya, 4 months, renewal
8. Mohamed Sami Ghoneim, from Jenin, 4 months, renewal
9. Tamer Mustafa Abu Diah, from Bethlehem, 3 months, renewal
10. Mohammed Akram Taqatqa, from Bethehem, 4 months, renewal
11. Ahmad Mohammed Zarba, from Nablus, 4 months, renewal
12. Fares Hosni Shawahneh, from Jenin, 4 months, renewal
13. Mohammed Khalil Ghoneim, from Bethlehem, 4 months, renewal
14. Zakaria Abdel-Hamid Oweidat, from al-Khalil, 4 months, renewal
15. Aseed Mohammed Mualla, from Nablus, 6 months, renewal
16. Mahmoud Mohammed Salah, from Bethlehem, 4 months, renewal
17. Salem Mohammed Jahalin, from Bethlehem, 6 months, renewal
18. Yousef Naim Ghoneim, from Bethlehem, 4 months, renewal
19. Kifah Mohammed Quzmar, from Ramallah, 4 months, renewal
20. Huzaifa Fadal Yahya, from Ramallah, 6 months, renewal
21. Yousef Abed Rabbo Kawazbeh, from al-Khalil, 6 months, renewal
22. Ibrahim Mohammed Dahbour, from Jenin, 4 months, renewal
23. Mohammed Ahmad Shehada, from Ramallah, 6 months, renewal
24. Raafat Mohsin Asfour, from Ramallah, 4 months, renewal
25. Bajis Khalil Nakhleh, from Ramallah, 3 months, renewal
26. Moatassem Mahmoud Jibril, from al-Khalil, 4 months, renewal
27. Mohammed Rabie Saleh, from Bethlehem, 4 months, renewal
28. Hatem Ismail Khatib, from Ramallah, 3 months, new order
29. Basem Mohammed al-Masalmeh, from al-Khalil, 3 months, renewal
30. Mahmoud Ayoub Sedr, from al-Khalil, 4 months, renewal
31. Ahmed Khalil Sheikh Ibrahim, from Jericho, 4 months, renewal
32. Tawfiq Ahmad Shalabi, from Jenin, 4 months, new order
33. Mu’min Fathi Fashafsha, from Jenin, 4 months, new order
34. Abdel-Aziz Abdallah Batran, from al-Khalil, 6 months, renewal
35. Murad Mohammed al-Zaghari, from Bethlehem, 4 months, renewal
36. Murad Mamoun Awawdeh, from al-Khalil, 6 months, renewal
37. Jaber Abdel-Halim Nateh, from al-Khalil, 4 months, renewal
38. Ghassan Ibrahim Zawahreh, from Bethlehem, 6 months, renewal
39. Mahmoud Hasan Waridan, from Bethlehem, 4 months, renewal
40, Mahmoud Mohammed Matter, from Ramallah, 6 months, new order
41. Khalida Kanaan Jarrar, from al-Bireh, 6 months, new order
42. Mohammed Asad Khalifa, from Jenin, 6 months, renewal
43. Nawaf Swarkah, from Bethlehem, 4 months, renewal
44. Hassan Yasser Karajeh, from Ramallah, 4 months, renewal
45. Shuja Jaber Darwish, from Ramallah, 6 months, renewal
46. Othman Rashaideh, from Bethlehem, 4 months, renewal
47. Ayman Ahmad Abu Arab, from Ramallah, 4 months, renewal
48. Afnan Ahmad Abu Haniyeh, from Anata (Jerusalem), 3 months, new order
49. Ibrahim Naji al-Kilani, from Jenin, 6 months, new order
50. Bahaa Hasan Abu Tabikh, from Jenin, 6 months, new order
