{"id":12298,"date":"2023-11-28T16:54:35","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T16:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12298"},"modified":"2023-11-28T16:54:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T16:54:35","slug":"why-israel-imprisons-so-many-palestinians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12298","title":{"rendered":"Why Israel imprisons so many Palestinians"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“Israel contends that it has the right to circumvent certain international obligations in the West Bank, saying that it\u2019s not part of Israel\u2019s sovereign territory and therefore subject to military laws that can restrict people\u2019s civil rights. But watchdog groups, including the United Nations Human Rights Committee, argue<\/a> that as the occupying power, Israel must respect human rights in Palestinian territories \u2014 especially as the occupation grows older and more entrenched.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And before the war, Israel was not, by and large, deploying this tool lawfully. \u201cAmnesty has found that Israel\u2019s systematic use of administrative detention against Palestinians indicates that it\u2019s used to persecute Palestinians rather than as an extraordinary and selectively used preventative measure,\u201d Rghebi said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel maintains that it detains people because of legitimate security concerns, such as potential participation in violent attacks. But while there is a thin veneer of due process \u2014 Palestinians can appeal their detention orders, for example \u2014 the reality is that a stunningly low number of appeals succeed, in no small part because as both local<\/a> and international<\/a> human rights groups have documented, neither the detainees nor their lawyers are told what evidence Israel has against them. (According to B\u2019Tselem, Israeli military courts only nullified 1.2 percent<\/a> of detention orders issued between 2015 and 2017, and an investigation by Haaretz found<\/a> that as of August, not a single detention order had been canceled this year.)”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Israel contends that it has the right to circumvent certain international obligations in the West Bank, saying that it\u2019s not part of Israel\u2019s sovereign territory and therefore subject to military laws that can restrict people\u2019s civil rights. But watchdog groups, including the United Nations Human Rights Committee, argue that as the occupying power, Israel must respect human rights in Palestinian territories \u2014 especially as the occupation grows older and more entrenched.
\nAnd before the war, Israel was not, by and large, deploying this tool lawfully. \u201cAmnesty has found that Israel\u2019s systematic use of administrative detention against Palestinians indicates that it\u2019s used to persecute Palestinians rather than as an extraordinary and selectively used preventative measure,\u201d Rghebi said.<\/p>\n

Israel maintains that it detains people because of legitimate security concerns, such as potential participation in violent attacks. But while there is a thin veneer of due process \u2014 Palestinians can appeal their detention orders, for example \u2014 the reality is that a stunningly low number of appeals succeed, in no small part because as both local and international human rights groups have documented, neither the detainees nor their lawyers are told what evidence Israel has against them. (According to B\u2019Tselem, Israeli military courts only nullified 1.2 percent of detention orders issued between 2015 and 2017, and an investigation by Haaretz found that as of August, not a single detention order had been canceled this year.)”<\/p>\n

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