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25 more Palestinians ordered imprisoned without charge or trial

sad-poster25 Palestinians were ordered to administrative detention, imprisonment without charge or trial, between 10 and 23 November, reported the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society. Palestinian lawyer Mahmoud Halabi said that most of the orders were renewals of existing administrative detainees’ imprisonment.

65 Palestinians were imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention orders between 1 and 10 November, for a total of 88 orders issued so far this month. Among those ordered to further imprisonment without charge or trial was Palestinian Journalists Syndicate leader and prominent journalist Omar Nazzal. Nazzal’s detention was originally extended for three months; however, the order was reduced on 23 November to , meaning that Nazzal is now scheduled for release on 24 December.

The orders issued are as follows:

1. Musab Mahmoud Abed Rabbo, from Tulkarem, 6 months, new order
2. Qusay Hassan Khalilia, from Jenin, 6 months, extension
3. Hazem Nabhan Srouji, from Tulkarem, 4 months, extension
4. Abdel-Rahman Abdullah Hammad, from Jerusalem, 4 months, extension
5. Hamza Abdel-Fattah Omar, from Tulkarem, 4 months, extension
6. Khalil Mohammed Shawabka, from al-Khalil, 2 months, extension
7. Rami Jihad Khatib, from al-Khalil, 4 months, extension
8. Ali Abdel-Rahman Jaradat, from Ramallah, 4 months, extension
9. Omar Naji Nazzal, from El-Bireh, 2 months, extension
10. Yahya Hamid Armoush, from Ramallah, 4 months, extension
11. Bayan Khaled Badawi, from al-Khalil, 6 months, extension
12. Ahmad Adnan Salman, from Nablus, 6 months, extension
13. Mohammed Fouad Oweis, from Jenin, 4 months, extension
14. Tawfiq Hisham Abu Absa, from Ramallah, 3 months, extension
15. Mohammed Abdel-Raouf Hamed, from Qalqilya, 4 months, extension
16. Abdel-Rahim Bassam Hamid, from Ramallah, 4 months, extension
17. Abdel-Razaq Hussein Qawasmeh, from al-Khalil, 6 months, extension
18. Mohammed Mustafa Najjar, from Bethlehem, 6 months, extension
19. Ali Mohammed Amayreh, from al-Khalil, 6 months, extension
20. Ali Mohammed Shawabka, from Ramallah, 3 months, new order
21. Khaled Mohammed al-Fasfous, from al-Khalil, 6 months, new order
22. Jafar Sami Zaher, from Nablus, 6 months, extension
23. Mahmoud Muhannad Yaqiba, from Jenin, 4 months, extension
24. Mohammed Izzat al-Khatib, from al-Khalil, 3 months, extension
25. Alaa Abdel-Rahman Azem, from Ramallah, 6 months, extension

Palestinian women prisoners hit with high sentences, transferred to HaSharon prison due to fires

damonPalestinian women prisoners held in Damon prison were transferred on the evening of Thursday, 24 November to HaSharon prison after the large fires sweeping the area have neared the area of the prison. The treatment of the 16 women prisoners held in Damon has long been a subject of protest by women transferred there, as well as by male Palestinian prisoners; recently, Samer Issawi and Munther Snobar engaged in a hunger strike demanding the transfer of women held there. Women have repeatedly protested their conditions of confinement, the lack of appropriate facilities and medical care, and the use of the “bosta” that makes trips to and from the military court last up to three days.

helwahamamraAmong those transferred was Palestinian prisoner Hilweh Hamamreh, 26, who was sentenced by the Ofer military court on Wednesday, 23 November to 6 years in Israeli prisons. Hamamreh has been imprisoned for one year, since 8 November 2015; she was severely injured after being shot by Israeli occupation forces near Beitar Illit settlement and accused of attempting to stab a settler guard. Hamamreh was shot multiple times by occupation forces and was held in Hadassah hospital for a month, during which parts of her pancreas, liver, intestines and spleen were removed. During her time in hospital, a group of settlers entered her room and threatened to kill her.

Hamamreh, from the village of Husan near Bethlehem, has repeatedly been denied family visits and has had only one visit with her two-year-old daughter.

shurouqMeanwhile, Shorouq Dwayyat, 19, from Sur Baher in Jerusalem, had her  until 25 December 2016. Dwayyat has been imprisoned since 11 October 2015; she was seriously injured when shot in the hand, chest, and neck by an Israeli settler in Jerusalem. Dwayyat is a student at Bethlehem University; the settler claimed that she attempted to stab him while she notes that she was assaulted by the settler who attempted to grab her headscarf in an act of religious and racial harassment and that she pushed him away before he shot her.

maysoon-musaMaysoun Musa, 22, from the village of Shawawreh east of Bethlehem, was sentenced to 15 years in Israeli prison by the Ofer military court. Musa has been imprisoned since 29 June 2015; she attempted to stab an Israeli soldier at a checkpoint in an anti-occupation operation.

saharnatshehOn Thursday, 24 November, Sahar Natsheh, 43, of Beit Hanina in Jerusalem, was sentenced to three months imprisonment for “incitement” for her posts on Facebook. Natsheh, a prominent local activist known for her participation in protests in defense of Al-Aqsa Mosque and against the Israeli anti-Palestinian ethnic cleansing of Jerusalem, already spent over eight months under house arrest in her home. She is one of hundreds of Palestinians targeted for arrest and imprisonment for their social media postings.

There are approximately 60 Palestinian women prisoners held in HaSharon and Damon prisons (now all in HaSharon), including 13 Palestinian minor girls.

Palestinian prisoners launch collective protests in support of Shadid and Abu Fara on 60th day of hunger strike

abufara-shadid-hospitalA group of Palestinian political prisoners in the Ofer prison have launched collective actions in solidarity with Ahmad Abu Fara and Anas Shadid, on hunger strike for 60 days, demanding their freedom from administrative detention, Israeli imprisonment without charge or trial. Palestinian lawyer Ahlam Haddad, representing Shadid and Abu Fara, said that prisoners in Ofer sections 11, 15 and 18 were returning meals on Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday, with a plan to move toward a collective strike on Sunday, 27 November.

Shadid and Abu Fara are facing severe health conditions in Assaf Harofe hospital. Both men’s administrative detention was “suspended” by the Israeli Supreme Court given their severe health situation; however, they refused to end their hunger strikes without the cancellation of their detention orders. Shadid, 19, and Abu Fara, 29, launched their strikes on 25 September; both have been imprisoned without charge or trial since early August.

The two are currently held together in one room; they have experienced severe weight loss, headaches, difficulty seeing and breathing, and body pains. They have also not showered for 20 days due to their inability to stand. Palestinian lawyer Moataz Shqairat said that they both are barely able to speak or move, urging immediate action to save them from death.

Shadid’s brother, Abdul-Majid, told Asra Voice that the health of his brother had deteriorated severely, and that he was showing signs of liver disease. He noted that doctors at Assaf Harofeh warned that both Shadid and Abu Fara would be at severe risk of their lives if they enter a coma. Abdul-Majid Shadid said that the “freeze” of their administrative detention is a dangerous situation for the strikers, as it acts to divert public attention from the strikers and allows them to be subject to pressure to end the strike, while they continue to face the danger of a renewal of their administrative detention orders. He also said that he had received a phone call from Israeli intelligence, threatening him with arrest if he continues to organize public events in support of his brother and Abu Fara.

Meanwhile, Ammar al-Hmour, of Jenin, launched his own hunger strike on Tuesday, 22 November, against his administrative detention without charge or trial. He has been imprisoned since 16 February 2016 and is in his second six-month administrative detention period. Nour el-Din Omar is continuing his hunger strike for 20 days against his solitary confinement; he has been isolated for years.

They are among over 700 Palestinians imprisoned without charge or trial, out of 7,000 total Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli prisons. Administrative detainees have engaged in a series of individual and collective hunger strikes to demand their freedom.

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network urges the escalation of international actions to demand the freedom of Shadid, Abu Fara, their fellow strikers, and all Palestinian political prisoners.

Palestinian girl Nurhan Awad, 16, sentenced to 13 years in Israeli prisons

hadeel-and-nuranPalestinian girl Nurhan Awad, 16, was sentenced to 13 1/2 years in Israeli prison on Wednesday, 23 November, the latest in a series of Palestinian children who have been subject to extremely lengthy prison sentences. Nurhan, a Palestinian refugee from Qalandiya camp, has been imprisoned for one year, since 23 November 2015. She was also sentenced to a fine of 30,000 NIS (approximately $7000 USD).

Her cousin, Hadeel Awad, 14, was shot dead by Israeli occupation forces on the same day at close range as she lay already injured on the ground. Nurhan and Hadeel were accused of attempting to stab a man with scissors; in this case, a lightly-injured 70-year-old Palestinian man. The event was captured on video; Nurhan stood in place holding a pair of scissors. She was hit from behind by a chair and as she lay injured in the ground, she was shot again at close range. Nurhan was severely injured after taking two bullets in her chest. After her cousin was extrajudicially executed, Nurhan was imprisoned. Her case is strikingly similar to that of Ahmad Manasrah, 14, who was sentenced to 12 years in prison after his 15-year-old cousin, Hassan, was extrajudicially executed in a similar attack by Israeli forces.

Muawiya Alqam, 14, was sentenced to six and 1/2 years in Israeli prison; Munther Abu Mayalah, 15, and Mohammed Taha, 16, were sentenced to 11 years. Jerusalemite children, including Nurhan, Muawiya, Munther, and Mohammed, have been particularly subject to these extremely high sentences. In “security” cases, Palestinian children do not receive reduced sentences despite their juvenile ages. For any conviction on a charge that carries a maximum sentence exceeding six months, children 14 and older receive sentences equal to those of adults.

There are over 400 Palestinian children currently imprisoned in Israeli jails, including 13 Palestinian girls. Like Nurhan, they are held in HaSharon prison. Imprisoned Palestinian children have overwhelmingly reported being subject to harsh interrogations, inhumane treatment, sleep deprivation, kicking and beating, denial of access to lawyers and parents, and other forms of mistreatment amounting to torture. Over 57 Palestinian children, like Hadeel Awad, have been extrajudicially executed since October 2015.

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network reiterates its denunciation of the lengthy sentences being systematically meted out against Palestinian children, particularly the 13 1/2 year sentence against Nurhan Awad. We urge the escalation of international solidarity actions and protests in response to the imprisonment and killing of Palestinian children and youth. We demand the immediate release of Nurhan Awad, Ahmad Manasrah, Muawiya Alqam, Munther Abu Mayalah, Mohammed Taha, and all of the over 400 Palestinian child prisoners in Israeli prisons. We further demand an immediate end to the international military aid, cooperation and assistance that funds these attacks on Palestinian children, and demand action to compel compliance with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

The sentencing of Nurhan Awad is part and parcel of a systematic targeting of Palestinian children for severe oppression as part of the Zionist colonial project in Palestine, in an attempt to stifle all forms of resistance and push Palestinian families out of their homeland. It is also part of the ongoing ethnic cleansing project of Nakba taking place in Jerusalem and throughout Palestine in an attempt to erase its Palestinian identity and presence. The road to freedom for Palestinian children is inextricable from the road to freedom for the land and the people of Palestine.

26 November, Houston: Houston Supports Rasmea Odeh

Saturday, 26 November
1:00 pm
Mickey Leland Federal Building
1919 Smith St
Houston, TX
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/159375504535144/

rasmeaodehOn November 29th, Rasmea Odeh will be heading to court where the expert testimony of Dr. Fabri, a renowned psychologist who has worked with rape and sexual assault survivors, will be challenged by the prosecution.

The 69-year-old Rasmea is a legend in the Palestine national movement. In Drain’s courtroom in 2014, she was convicted of a politically-motivated immigration charge, and in 2015, sentenced to 18 months in prison and deportation. Rasmea appealed the decision, arguing that Drain had denied her defense the right to make its case.

In February of this year, in a major legal victory, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed that Drain was wrong when he refused to allow defense attorneys to present evidence that Rasmea suffers from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). The PTSD caused her to misunderstand the questions about the unlawful conviction and imprisonment she suffered under the Israeli occupation. At the trial, Rasmea was not allowed to tell the story of Israel forcing her to falsely confess to alleged bombings in 1969, when she endured over three weeks of brutal sexual, physical, and psychological torture at the hands of the Israeli military.

We would like to show the world, on November 26th, that Houston, Texas, stands with Rasmea Odeh. We stand with her against political repression and we stand with the Palestinian people. Justice for Rasmea! Justice for Palestine!

26 November, Fort Lauderdale: Solidarity with Palestine – Justice for Rasmea

Saturday, 26 November
3:30 pm
US Federal Courthouse
299 E Broward Blvd
Fort Lauderdale, FL
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/337626353277732/

fort-lauderdaleNovember 29 marks International Day of Solidarity With The Palestinian People. Also on November 29th, 69-year-old Palestinian activist Rasmea Odeh will be heading to court where the expert testimony of Dr. Fabri, a renowned psychologist who has worked with rape and sexual assault survivors, will be challenged by the prosecution.

Rasmea is a legend in the Palestine national movement. In a US federal courtroom in 2014, she was convicted of a politically-motivated immigration charge, and in 2015, sentenced to 18 months in prison and deportation. Rasmea appealed the decision, arguing that Judge Drain had denied her defense the right to make its case.

In February of this year, in a major legal victory, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed that Drain was wrong when he refused to allow defense attorneys to present evidence that Rasmea suffers from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). The PTSD caused her to misunderstand the questions about the unlawful conviction and imprisonment she suffered under the Israeli occupation. At the trial, Rasmea was not allowed to tell the story of Israel forcing her to falsely confess to alleged bombings in 1969, when she endured over three weeks of brutal sexual, physical, and psychological torture at the hands of the Israeli military.

South Florida activists will stand in solidarity with Rasmea Odeh on November 26th, two days before her trial which also happens to be International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.

We demand justice for Rasmea, an end to political repression and an end to the oppression of Palestinian people!

G4S role in Standing Rock and Palestine slammed by NYC protesters

nyc-18nov1Protesters in New York City gathered outside the offices of multinational security corporation G4S on Friday, 18 November to denounce G4S’ role in providing private security for the Dakota Access Pipeline against the water protectors’ camp led by the Standing Rock Sioux, and to demand the corporation get out of Palestine and end its profiteering from occupation. Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network gathered outside the G4S offices in Manhattan, chanting, holding placards and distributing information about G4S and Palestinian political prisoners.

nyc-18nov2G4S is subject to a global campaign for boycott due to its contracts with the Israel Prison Service and other state agencies to provide security systems, control rooms and equipment to Israeli prisons, checkpoints and police training centers. The corporation is also involved in migrant detention and deportation and youth incarceration in the US, Canada, UK, Australia and elsewhere. Multiple campaigns for justice in Palestine, private prison divestment and prison abolition have campaigned for boycott and divestment from G4S due to its international role in repression. In Standing Rock, G4S is part of the private security forces mobilized on behalf of the Dakota Access Pipeline, where indigenous protesters have set up camp to defend the land and water of the Standing Rock Sioux from the destructive and dangerous project. G4S has pledged to sell off its “reputationally damaging” businesses like its entire Israeli subsidiary and its involvement in youth imprisonment, yet it remains in Palestine today. Palestinian activists have emphasized the importance of continuing to protest G4S.

nyc-18nov5When protesters arrived at the G4S offices in Manhattan on Friday, the doors were locked despite the fact that the office building’s corridor is a legally-designated public space. However, several groups of protesters were able to enter this public corridor at various times to march through the inside, chanting loudly, “Occupation is a crime, from Standing Rock to Palestine!” and “Stop detentions, stop the crimes! G4S out of Palestine!” They marched through the corridor to the other side of the building before returning the same way.

nyc-18nov3The protest highlighted the hunger strikes of Ahmad Abu Fara and Anas Shadid, who are held in Assaf Harofeh hospital. They have been on hunger strike since 25 September in protest of their imprisonment without charge or trial under Israeli administrative detention. Both have suffered severe health difficulties; their detention has been “suspended” by the Israeli supreme court due to their health crises, yet they have vowed to continue their strikes until their detention orders are lifted. Also highlighted was the struggle at Standing Rock against the Dakota Access Pipeline and for indigenous rights and protection of the water. Protesters likened the settler colonial destruction of the pipeline and attacks on indigenous protesters with the repression of Palestinian strugglers against Zionist settler colonialism.

nyc-18nov4Samidoun will hold its next New York City protest on Friday, 25 November, in a new location – at the Best Buy on Union Square. This protest, held on Black Friday, the biggest shopping day of the year, is part of the International Week of Action to Boycott Hewlett-Packard. This week of action includes events in hundreds of international cities. The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee is urging action to boycott HP due to its role in providing a range of services to the Israeli apartheid system for profit, including management databases and software for Israeli prisons, in addition to imaging services for checkpoints, computing services for settlements, and involvement in the siege on Gaza. The protest will take place at 4:00 pm at 52 E. 14th St (Union Square) and all are urged to attend to take a stand against HP’s involvement in Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people.

Photos by Adnan Farsakh

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Interrogation repeatedly extended for BDS leader, grassroots activist Salah Khawaja #FreeSalah

free-salahPalestinian grassroots activist Salah Khawaja, the Secretary of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC) in Palestine, once again was ordered to eight days in interrogation on Wednesday, 16 November. Khawaja, 45 and a leader of the Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign (Stop the Wall), was seized from his home in a violent raid by Israeli occupation military forces on 26 October. He had been denied access to a lawyer for 20 days and was only allowed to peak to a lawyer for the first time on 16 November at the Petah Tikva military court.

Since that time, he has been held under interrogation in Petah Tikva interrogation center. He has been subject to numerous intense interrogation sessions and it was reported by his lawyer that he has visibly lost weight and is sleep deprived. He has undergone over 40 interrogtion sessions lasting eight to 16 hours each; Khawaja reported to his lawyer that he has been beaten and that interrogators have spit in his face, screamed in his ears, and kicked at his genitals, and that his family members have been threatened, reported Stop The Wall.

Front Line Defenders, Unadikum and Stop the Wall have issued calls for action in support of Khawaja and urging international attention to support this case of a Palestinian human rights defender targeted for his activism.

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network joins in the call for action in the case of Salah Khawaja and demands his immediate freedom. We urge international action in support of Salah and all imprisoned Palestinians.

Take action!

1. Participate in the Front Line Defenders action, urging the Israeli state to immediately release Khawaja and end its persecution of Palestinian human rights defenders. Join in here:  https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/action/take-action-salah-khawaja

2. Participate in the Stop the Wall action and send the sample letter to your government officials to demand they speak up about the case of Salah Khawaja and other human rights defenders. http://stopthewall.org/2016/11/11/freesalah-send-message-your-governments-now

3. Demand your country’s officials speak up and end the silence and complicity in the detention of Salah Khawaja and other Palestinian human rights defenders, and over 7,000 Palestinian political prisoners. Call your foreign affairs officials – and members of parliament – and urge action on this case.

Call during your country’s regular office hours:

  • Australian Minister of Foreign Affairs Julie Bishop: + 61 2 6277 7500
  • Canadian Foreign Minister Stephane Dion: +1-613-996-5789
  • European Union Commissioner Federica Mogherini: +32 (0) 2 29 53516
  • New Zealand Minister of Foreign Affairs Murray McCully: +64 4 439 8000
  • United Kingdom Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson: +44 20 7008 1500
  • United States President Barack Obama: 1-202-456-1111

Tell your government:

  1. Salah Khawaja, a Palestinian human rights defender, has been arbitrarily detained since 26 October and denied access to a lawyer. Salah is one of the primary Palestinian voices against the illegal settlements and wall destroying Palestinian land.
  2. Your government must demand Salah’s immediate release and an end to the persecution of Palestinian human rights defenders by the Israeli state. 
  3. Israel’s interrogation of Salah at Petah Tikva violates the Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilians during Times of War, which prohibits the transfer of protected civilians to the territory of the occupying power. Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilians during Times of War, which prohibits the transfer of protected civilians to the territory of the occupying power. 
  4. The government must do more than express concern, but should also take serious measures to end these violations. Representatives of your government should attend Salah’s hearings beginning on 6 November, and suspend agreements with Israeli institutions involved in the ongoing imprisonment and oppression of Palestinians.

Palestinian student leader, journalist has detention extended until 20 December

abusafiyaPalestinian student leader, journalist and media activist Ibrahim Abu Safiya, the coordinator of the Islamic Association at Bir Zeit University, once again had his imprisonment extended by Israeli occupation forces. The Ofer military court extended his detention until 20 December despite the appeals of his defense lawyers that there was no justification to extend his arrest.

Abu Safiya, 21, was seized by Israeli occupation forces on 28 September at Beit Ur checkpoint west of Ramallah. He is in his final year of study in the journalism faculty at Bir Zeit University and is highly active in unions and popular organizations of journalists. He also works as a freelance writer and researcher.

He is heavily involved in Bir Zeit student union activities, including the 28-day student strike against tuition increases on the campus, in which he engaged in a five-day hunger strike. Just days before his arrest, he spoke to the media about the success of the student campaign in preventing tuition hikes that make education inaccessible to Paletinian youth, and announcing the agreement to end the student strike. Abu Safiya had been one of the four student spokespeople and representatives during the anti-tuition-hike campaign.

Dozens of Palestinian journalists remain imprisoned by the Israeli occupation, including Omar Nazzal, member of the General Secretariat of the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate and Hasan Safadi, media coordinator for Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association. Abu Safiya’s arrest also points to the ongoing targeting of Palestinian student activists and organizers for involvement in student union activities, student protests and other student actions on campus. In another example, Palestinian student Awni Shakhshir, 26, from Nablus, was arrested on Sunday, 20 November as he passed through the Za’atara military checkpoint south of the city. Shakhshir is the coordinator of the Islamic Bloc of An-Najah University; he was seized and taken to an unknown location.

Journalist Omar Nazzal, Shadi Jarrar among Palestinians ordered to additional imprisonment without charge

omarnazzalOmar Nazzal, prominent Palestinian journalist and member of the General Secretariat of the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate, was ordered on Monday, 21 November to three additional months in administrative detention by the Israeli occupation military. One of dozens of imprisoned journalists, Nazzal was seized by occupation forces on 23 April 2016 as he attempted to cross the al-Karameh/Allenby bridge to Jordan to participate in the General Meeting of the European Federation of Journalists in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Since that time, he was ordered first to four months in administrative detention without charge or trial, then again to another three months of arbitrary imprisonment before his detention was again renewed today. Nazzal’s case has drawn international condemnation at the targeting of a prominent Palestinian journalist without charge or trial on the basis of so-called “secret evidence.”

shadi-jarrarNazzal was not the only Palestinian political prisoner ordered to additional imprisonment without charge or trial. Palestinian prisoner Shadi Jarrar, 36, from Wadi Burkin west of Jenin, was  to four months in administrative detention for the third time consecutively. He has spent eight months in administrative detention since his seizure by Israeli occupation forces on 12 March as he passed a military checkpoint between Ramallah and Nablus. Jarrar is held in the Negev desert prison. He previously spent 13 years in Israeli jails before his release in 2014 as a Palestinian political prisoner.

louay-daoudAlso ordered once more to administrative detention was Louay Daoud, 41, of Qalqilya, for the fourth time, for four months. Arrested by Israeli occupation forces when they invaded his home on 9 December 2015, he has now been ordered to administrative detention four times consecutively, without charge or trial. Daoud is also a former prisoner who spent 12 years in Israeli prisons until his release in 2003.

ashraf-jibrilAshraf Jibril, 23, of Qalqilya, was also ordered imprisoned without charge or trial for an additional four months – the third consecutive administrative detention order against him. His home was raided on 10 November 2015 by Israeli occupation forces; he was twice ordered to six months in administrative detention and now an additional four months.  The Israeli occupation authorities also renewed the administrative detention of Palestinian prisoner Qusai Hassan Khaliliya, 22, of Jaba village south of Jenin, for the second consecutive time for six months of imprisonment without charge or trial. Khaliliya was seized by occupation forces on 23 May in a pre-dawn raid on his Jaba home by occupation forces, who ransacked his belongings.

There are over 700 Palestinians held without charge or trial out of a total of 7,000 Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails. Administrative detention orders can be issued for one to six months at a time and are indefinitely renewable. Many Palestinian prisoners have spent years at a time imprisoned under repeatedly-extending administrative detention orders. Administrative detention has been used to target political leaders, influential community members, members of the Palestinian Legislative Council, and other prominent Palestinian figures. Ahmad Abu Fara and Anas Shadid are currently on hunger strike for the 57th day against their own imprisonment without charge or trial.