Israeli administrative detention in Palestine

Israeli security forces arrest a Palestinian youth during a protest near the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem Al-Quds on September 22, 2015. (AFP)

Administrative detention is a policy practiced by Israeli military courts where Palestinians can be imprisoned without a trial or even an accusation.

Israel has been imprisoning Palestinians since 1948; the current number of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli detention centers is around 6000, with 424 Palestinians under Administrative Detention, the policy of arrest and detention of individuals by the state without trial.

Each administrative detention sentence is 6 months which is also renewable.

In this edition of Coffee in Palestine, we visit former prisoners, the families of current prisoners and see how the experience has taken its toll on them.

We will also get to meet Ahmed Qatamish, a Palestinian writer and activist who was placed under Administrative Detention by Israel multiple times.

He talks to us about his experience in Israeli prisons as well as what Palestinian prisoners face after they are released.


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