SvennoJ on 06 March 2024
Israel detaining more than 9,000 Palestinians: Human rights group
Israeli rights group HaMoked says that as of March, Israel is imprisoning 9,077 Palestinians, including more than 3,500 held without charge in administrative detention. The data, HaMoked says, was provided by the Israel Prison Service.
“Holding prisoners and detainees from the [occupied Palestinian territories] inside Israel constitutes a blatant violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention, prohibiting the transfer of prisoners and detainees outside the occupied territory, and also violates basic human rights enshrined, inter alia, in Israeli law,” the organisation says.
