Administrative detention

What is Israel administrative detention?

Administrative detention is a procedure that allows the Israeli military to hold prisoners indefinitely on secret information without charging them or allowing them to stand trial.
Administrative detention, is considered illegal under international human rights law.
This practice is justified by Israel under military code 1651.

Ben-Gvir ordered continuous inspections in the prisons, to close the ovens that produced bread for the prisoners, to reduce the number of times Palestinian prisoners can go to the toilet.
In various statements Ben-Gvir said he wanted to eliminate all those rules that guaranteed Palestinians ”comfortable detention”.

The situation of Palestinians is actually drastic, they are detained in overcrowded and humid cells, they are tortured physically and psychologically, they are subjected to very long interrogations, they are not allowed to see their families and if they are lucky they have a lawyer.

Two thousand Palestinian prisoners began a hunger strike on 23 March.
Mass protest that the prisoners called a “volcano of freedom or martyrdom”.
This protest was in response to the restrictive measures imposed by the minister of ”Israeli security” Itamar Ben-Gvir and against the administrative detention.

The prisoners wrote a collective message:

“We entrust you with our well-being: do not leave us alone in
the battlefields, exposed to the invaders’ arrows. Protect our
souls and backs, for you are the ones with unwavering values, principles, and bets on you are winning… liberate us
while we are still alive, before we become dead bodies and numbers… free us from the graveyards of the living, before
we turn into forgotten tombstones in the cemeteries of numbers.
Liberate us once and for all.”