Data obtained by the Hamoked Foundation - the Center for the Defense of the Individual indicated that the number of prisoners in administrative detention in Israeli prisons until the beginning of September was 743.
According to the Foundation, there are approximately 100 new administrative detentions within two months , as data from the Prisons Authority indicated at the beginning of June that there were 645 administrative detention in Israeli prisons and detention centers.
She said: Administrative detention is a procedure that the Israeli authorities resort to to detain Palestinian civilians without a specific charge and without trial. And for multiple times.
She added: Administrative detention is illegal and a strict violation of the freedom and rights of the Palestinian individual. International law allows the use of this procedure only in exceptional cases and when there is a real and specific threat and there is no other means to prevent it, and thus it cannot be unlimited in time.