The Israeli occupation authorities arrested (445) Palestinians in September 2022, including (35) minors and (19) women, where the highest rate of arrests goes to the city of Jerusalem with (181) arrest cases, including (31) minors and (16) women, followed by Jenin with (59) cases, then Hebron with (55) cases.

(245) administrative detention orders have been issued on September, including (102) new orders and (143) extending orders.

September witnessed an increase in violations and crimes committed by the occupation authorities, such as field executions, the policy of collective punishment and conducting organized arrests which have been accompanied by flagrant violations against detainees and their families.

Detainees' institutions and human rights organizations ( the Commission of Detainees' Affairs,  the Palestinian Society Prisoner's Club, Addameer Association and Wadi Hilweh Information Centre) pointed out that there are currently (4700) Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons,  including (30) women,  (190) minors and (800) administrative detainees of whom two females and six children. 

The detainee Khalil Awawdey pays the price for challenging the jailer and resisting the administrative detention

Awawdeh was born in November 1981 in Ethna town / Hebron. He is married and a father of four daughters (Tulin, Lauren, Marya and Mariam). He was arrested many times under the administrative detention and other rules and he spent 10 years in prison, the last of which was in December 2021 and he has been sentenced to 6 months of administrative detention, his sentence was also extended many times.

Thus, the administrative detention is an undetermined period of detention, which forced the detainee Awawdeh to start a hunger strike on March 3, 2022 in a protest against his administrative detention. He conducted the strike for 111 days, and then he had an agreement with the administration of prisons, but the last broke the promise and extended his arrest for 4 months. He restarted another hunger strike despite his difficult health conditions, in challenge with this arbitrary detention.  In this way, he scored an important victory through which he was able to end his arbitrary administrative detention, shed light on the crime of "administrative detention" and proved the efficacy of the hunger strike weapon as a means of struggle.

In the face of this challenge and the great insistence scored by the detainee "Khalil Awawdeh", the Israeli authorities tried to break his will and take revenge of him and his family and delayed his release.

He is currently held at the so-called Al-Ramla prison. He suffers from severe pains all over his body and unable to walk and uses a wheelchair. He is waiting for his freedom and having the appropriate treatment in the Palestinian hospitals.   

Administrative detainees confronting the crime of administrative detention

30 detainees from the Popular Front decided to enter an open hunger strike in 25/9/2022, in a protest against the policy of administrative detention perused by the Israeli authorities as a punitive measure against Palestinian people. Detainees are deprived of their freedom and held inside prisons without a trial or charges.

Once the detainees announced their strike, the administration of prisons started to impose different punishments against them, represented in isolating them in cells, financial penalties and depriving them of family visits.

Cases in point:

-The detainee Nidal Abu Aker, who spent around 18 years in prison, have been rearrested in 1/8/2022 and sentenced to 6 months of administrative detention, after one month of being released.

-The detainee Thaer Taha, (43 years old) from Ramallah, got arrested for the first time in 1999 before two weeks of his wedding. He was sentenced to three years and a half, and got married after setting him free. However, he was rearrested against and spent around 13 years in prison.

Deprivation of visits,, revenge and collective punishment

The administration of prisons seeks to take revenge from our detainees, aiming to undermine the will and determination of detainees.

The administration of prisons resorted lately to deprive detainees of family visits aiming at taking revenge from detainees and their families, without any justification. Cancellation of visits does not depend on specific events, rather, any small incident can cancel visits in all prisons.thus, practices such that create more stress among detainees and their families.

The lawyer of the Commission of Detainees' Affairs, Fawaz Shaloudi, after visiting him at Ramlah prison, stated that the detainee Awawdeh (40 years old) uses a wheelchair, where he had a problem in the nerves of the brain and the eyes due to the hunger strike he went through.

He entered the hunger strike in 3/3/2022 protesting against his administrative detention and suspended the strike after 111 days upon promises to limit the period of his detention and release him.

However, after suspending his strike he has been sentenced to a new administrative detention rule for 4 months .Thus, he decided to go on a hunger strike until 31/8/2022. An agreement has been made between his lawyer and the administration of prisons to set him free on 2/10/2022.

The Commission of Detainees' Affairs pointed out that the administration of prisons had got around the decision of releasing the detainee Awawdeh, claiming that they will file an indictment against him.

Awawdeh sent a letter by the Commission's lawyer, saying: (I am recovering slowly, my morale is very high and I was not affected by keeping me in prison. I'm satisfied with God's will, and if they sentenced me to the administrative detention again, I won't hesitate to enter a hunger strike. I'm 50 kg now, and I can't walk without help).

The Commission calls on the international community organisations to intervene immediately to release the detainee Awawdeh. It's worth noting that he is married and a father of 4 daughters. He is a former detainee who spent the total of 12 years, including 6 years under the administrative detention.

The Commission of Detainees' Affairs called on the international community to intervene immediately to put an end to the policy of murder and execution committed by the occupation authorities against the Palestinian detainees.

The Commission stressed on the need for the international community to stick to their humane obligations towards the Palestinian people, and practice their power and authority to hold the Israeli terrorism.

The Commission pointed out that the ongoing attack against our detainees, including torture, murder and medical ignorance, led to an increase in the number of martyrs of Captive Movement.

There are currently (232) martyrs from the Captive Movement, the last of whom is the martyr Maher Ghawadreh.

(73) detainees have martyred due to torture, (73) due to medical ignorance, (79) due to deliberate murder after arrest and (7) after shooting them inside the prisons. In addition, there are hundreds of former detainees who died after getting released due to illnesses they got in prison because of torture and medical ignorance.

The Commission sends a public message to the whole world saying: you are partners in these crimes as long as you keep silent.

The occupation authorities issued (1610) administrative detention orders so far this year. (30) administrative detainees are currently on hunger strike for (12) days , as an option that does not have an alternative, in protest against their administrative detention.

The Commission of Detainees' Affairs illustrated that the occupation authorities have issued (245) orders of administrative detention last September, with (1610) orders so far this year.

The Commission stated that the administrative detention orders included (723) new orders accounted for around (44.9%) of the total number, and (887) renewal orders accounted for (55.1%) of the total orders.

The Commission demonstrated that the number of administrative detention orders of this year has exceeded the the orders of last year (2021), which recorded about (1595) orders. This means that there is an obvious increase in administrative detention orders.

The Commission of Detainees' Affairs called on the Palestinian people to stand by the administrative detainees and support them in their ongoing battle against the policy of administrative detention.

The head of the Commission of Detainees' Affairs, Qadri Abu Baker, stated that detainees are going to escalate their struggling plan to attain their demands, where this plan started today with dissolving the organisational bodies.

This means that the administration of prisons is forced to deal with each detainee separately. Abu Baker announced the steps that will be implemented by detainees, where 1000 detainees will go through a hunger strike next September, and the number will duplicate to reach 2000, in addition to returning their meals and other preliminary steps preceding the collective hunger strike.

Abu Baker confirmed that the strike is not the aim, but it is the last solution for them. The aim behind this struggling plan is disclaiming their rights and demands by the administration of prisons.

He also pointed out that the administration of prisons tend to deprive detainees from their rights, especially after the "freedom tunnel" , where tens of detainees got isolated.

Moreover, he related to the international solidarity with detainees and full support for their struggling plan.

The lawyer of the Commission, Mutaz Shqairat, informed that the number of administrative detainees who are conducting a hunger strike increased to 50 detainees, protesting against the unjust policy of administrative detention.

In this context, striking detainees boycott the Israeli courts as a protest step against their administrative detention, where the administration of prisons escalated suppression against them and confiscated the electrical appliances.

In addition, the administration of prisons is practicing a deliberate medical ignorance, and preventing them from having medical checkups.

It is worthy to mention that 30 detainees have started a hunger strike before 17 days, and other 20 detainees out of 800 joined the strike since 3 days.

* The military court of appeal at Ofer prison releases the detainee Musheer shahateet from Hebron, after submitting a request by the lawyer of the Commission of detainees to reduce his sentence, where he was supposed to be free on 20/10/2022

* The detainee Zakaria Zubaidi is currently isolated in difficult conditions at Remon prison, where he is kept most of the time handcuffed which causes severe pain. The head of the Commission, Qadri Abu Baker, called on human rights organisations to intervene immediately to put an end to his suffering.

* The detainee Wael Ne'arat is suffering from bad health conditions in the isolation of Remon prison. He has numbness in his hands and legs, in addition to visual impairment and hair fall due to diabetes, however, the administration of prisons refused to conduct medical tests for him. He went on a hunger strike before two weeks as the administration of prisons refused to provide him with diabetes test strips.

The Commission of Detainees and Ex_detainees Affairs confirmed in a report issued today that some members of the Nahshon special forces have recently abused minor detainees sexually, during the inspection process before transferring them to trials.

The Commission pointed out that according to testimonies of many minor detainees, who are currently held at Megiddo prison, they have been subjected to sexual harassment in a degrading manner by touching their sexual organs deliberately.

The Commission directed the advocate staff to monitor this issue, where minors are victims of the jailers' barbaric desires. Moreover, the Commission called on the international organisations and human rights organisations to intervene immediately to save those children and stop targeting them before destroying their future.