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.