Detainees' Institutions: occupation authorities arrested nearly (8000) Palestinians in 2021
Ramallah: the Israeli occupation Forces arrested (8000) during 2021, including (1300) minors and (184) women, in addition to (1595) orders of administrative detention.
Detainees' institutions and human rights organizations (the Commission of Detainees and Ex-detainees' Affairs, the Palestinian Society Prisoner's Club, Al Dameer Association for Human Rights and Wadi Hilweh Information Center) pointed out that there are currently (4600) detainees in Israeli prisons, including (43) women, (160) minors, (500) administrative detainees and (9) representatives of the Legislative Council.
Moreover, the number of sick detainees is (600), including (4) detainees who suffer from cancer and (14) detainees who have tumors in different degrees. A case in point is the (81-year-old) detainee Fuad Shobaki, in addition to (Khaled Shaweesh, Mansour Muwqadeh, Mu'tasem Raddad and Nahed Aqraa). The vast majority of them are held at the clinic of Ramlah prison, and they witnessed the martyrdom of a number their colleagues over the years during their detention. The number of martyrs of the Captive Movement reached to (227), after the martyrdom of the detainee Sami Al-Omour who passed away due to deliberate medical ignorance, in addition to hundreds of former detainees who passed away as a result of illnesses inherited during their detention, such as the detainee Husain Masalmeh.
There are currently (547) detainees who are sentenced to life imprisonment, the highest of whom is the detainee Abdullah Barghouthi, who is sentenced to life imprisonment (67) times. 4 of them have been sentenced in 2021: (Yaser Hattab, Qasem Asafreh, Nsiar Asafreh and Yousef Zhour).
The Israeli occupation continues to implement its systematic policy of retaining martyrs bodies, where (8) martyrs' bodies are currently retained: Anees Doleh, Azeez Ewaisat, Fares Baroud, Nassar Taqatqa, Bassam Sayeh, Saad Gharable, Kamal Abu Waar and Sami Al-Omour.
The number of long-term detainees, who were detained before the Oslo Accord reached 25, the oldest of whom were Karim Younis and Maher Younis, who have been detained since January 1983, in addition to the detainee Nael Al-Barghouti, who is serving the longest detention period in the history of the captive movement. He entered his 42nd year in the prisons of the occupation. It is worthy to mention that he was released in 2011 in an exchange deal, but he got re-arrested in 2014.
The report showed that the Israeli occupation authorities continued in 2021 the systematic policy of torture, where it violated the detainees' rights which are guaranteed by international agreements and treaties.
The operation of the "freedom tunnel" which took place on September 2021 constituted an important transformation on the confrontation inside the prisons and on the abusive measures imposed against detainees, the most prominent of which was the solitary confinement.
The report presents an observation for all policies and procedures implemented by the occupation authorities against Palestinian detainees, in addition to the situations of detainees in Israeli prisons, based on documentation and observation works in addition to field and legal follow-up conducted by the four institutions.
Occupation's policies and measures
The report shows part of the occupation's policies and violations that accompany the daily arrests and interrogation sessions, in addition to the breaches related to trial guarantees which violate detainees'' rights guaranteed in accordance with the International Humanitarian Law and the Human Rights International Law, including:
Daily arrests
The Israeli occupation authorities continue to use the policy of daily arrests in an attempt to confront the Palestinian struggle. The number of daily arrests reached to (22) case, the highest of which was recorded on May 2021 and reached (3100) cases, including (2000) cases from the lands occupied in 1948. The lowest rate of arrests was recorded on August 2021 with (345) cases.
Related to cities, the highest rate of arrests was recorded on Jerusalem since the beginning of the year with (2784) cases, including (750) minors and (120) women.
Occupation authorities escalated targeting towns and refugee camps that witness a continuous confrontation with the occupation. Baita Town was a case in point, where the number of arrest cases exceeded (60) cases on May 2021, and included women and children.
Moreover, released detainees were also targeted, where the majority of them have been arrested under the administrative detention.
Violations during arrests and collective punishments
The daily arrests are accompanied by many measures, starting with breaking into houses late at night, abuse and attacks against the detainee and his family. In addition, the occupation forces use excessive force during arrests, in an arbitrary and collective manner. The collective punishment extends to all stages of detention, such as abusing the family as a means of pressure against the detainee during the investigation process.
A case in point is the 18-year-old detainee Ahmad Abu Snaineh, who was shot with a rubber coated bullet that led to the loss of one of his eyes during storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque. Besides, the 13-year-old detainee Omar Ajlouni from Jerusalem, who was arrested near Al-Amoud Gate, and he got beaten on his head during arrest which led to injury in the skull.
Furthermore, the Israeli occupation forces have implemented collective punishments against towns and villages, such as Turmusayya, Aqraba, Beer Al-Basha and Jenin city, by intrusions, raids, checkpoints and preventing people from passing by and interrogating them in the field.
Torture during interrogation
The occupation forces pursue the policy of physical and psychological torture in different methods, which are represented in deprivation of sleep during long sessions of interrogation, handcuffing, beating, slapping and cursing. In addition, detainees are threatened of arresting family members, sexual harassment or house demolishing. They are also deprived of using the toilet, taking a shower or changing their clothes. A case in point is the 36-year-old detainee Jalal Jabbareen from Hebron, who was subjected to interrogation at Al-Maskoubya detention center and was tortured for ten days. He underwent an interrogation for (38) hours while being handcuffed and tied to the chair, in addition to depriving him of sleeping, eating and meeting his lawyer. Another case in point is the 41-year-old detainee Hazma Zahran from Jerusalem, who underwent a harsh interrogation at Ofer and Ashkelon detention centers for (56) days, and got subjected to intensive beat, slaps on his face, handcuffing, hanging and he got interrogated for (42) hours continuously.
Arresting women
Palestinian women are subjected to arrests and attacks by the Israeli occupation authorities, without taking into consideration their health, psychological and social situations. Special Forces implemented recurrent and unprecedented suppressive actions against women detainees on December 2021, where they got beaten and threatened and punished with different measures such as depriving them of visits and three of them got isolated.
There are currently (34) women detainees in Israeli prisons, the youngest of whom is the 14-year-old detainee Nufouth Hammad, and the oldest of whom is the detainee Maysoun Mousa. The highest sentence goes to the detainees Shurouq Dwayat and Shatella Abu Ayyad who are sentenced to (16) years of imprisonment, and Maysoun Mousa and Aysha Afghani who are sentenced to (15) years. Moreover, there are (11) mothers in prisons such as Shuroiq Badan, in addition to injured detainees such as the detainee Israa Jabees from Jerusalem, who is sentenced to (11) years of imprisonment.
The occupation authorities still violating Palestinian women's rights in Israeli prisons, contradicting the 1987 United Nations Convention against Torture, which banned the inhumane and degrading treatment, and also contradicts the United Nations Standard Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners of 1955.
Women detainees live in inhumane conditions, where their rights of physical and psychological safety are not taken into consideration and they are subjected to physical attacks and medical ignorance. They are also deprived of enjoying their privacy due to installing surveillance cameras at the prions yard, which force the detainee to stay in their hijab most of the time.
Furthermore, they are deprived of their right to make handicrafts, in addition to being subjected to abuse during the process of transportation to the courts or hospitals, where the transportation process takes long hours, during which they are attacked by the forces of “Al-Nahsun.”
Arresting children
The Israeli occupation authorities does not differentiate between adults and children in arrests and violations, but it was proved that they do this deliberately and take advantage from their sensitive conditions and the effects of detention on their psychology. This contradicts all International Laws regarding the treatment of children, despite of signing the Convention on the Rights of the Child of 1991, which guarantees a special care for children and their rights to health care, education and social integration.
Children are subjected to attacks and mistreatment during arrest. A case in point is the child Muhammad Natsha who was beaten severely during his detention. They are also subjected to humiliation, deprivation of sleep, threating of harming family members and naked inspection. Cases in point are the minors Muhammad Daa'na, Amal Nakhla and Saleem Jwabreh who got tortured and humiliated.
Children are held at three prisons: Ofer, Damoun and Magiddo in harsh conditions, where they are deprived of contacting their families and their right to education.
More than (1300) children have been arrested in 202, (6) of them are arrested under the administrative detention, where (4) of them are still held: Muhamad Mansour, Amal Nakhla, Baraa Muhammad and Ahmad Bayed, which contradicts Convention on the Rights of the Child that stipulates "children detention should be the last resort and for the shortest possible period of time".
Arresting representatives and candidates of the Legislative Council
The Israeli occupation authorities escalated its violations against the rights of Legislative Council representatives and breached the immunity they enjoy. It is estimated that more than 50% of the representatives have experienced detention in Israeli prisons, and the vast majority of them were arrested under the administrative detention. The occupation authorities also pursued the candidates for the Legislative Council elections, after announcing the holding of legislative elections during the first months of 2021.
The occupation forces arrested tens of candidates, and the arrests were accompanied by night raids on houses, inspections and vandalism of family belongings. They also practiced systematic methods of repression and intimidation, which extended to collective punishments.
The process of targeting and arresting elected representatives is a retaliatory political measure that is not based on any legal justification, and constitutes a flagrant violation of the human, moral and democratic values.
Till the end of 2021, there are currently (9) representatives of the Legislative Council held at the Israeli prisons, such as Marwan Barghouthi, who was arrested since 2002, and Ahmad Saadat, who was arrested since 2006, in addition to Nizar Ramadan, Khaled Tafesh, Yaser Mansour, Ahmad Mubarak, Nayef Rjoub, Muhammad Abu Tair and Hasan Yousef.
Arresting journalists and activists based on posts on social media
Israeli occupation authorities arrested tens on journalists, the oldest of whom is the detainee Mahmoud Issa from Jerusalem, who is sentenced to life imprisonment.
The intensity of the attacks escalated with the confrontations took place in May 2021, and was concentrated in Jerusalem and increased with the arrest and beating of journalists, Guevara Al-Budairi, Heba Makiya and Zina Sanduqa.
Another prominent case in point is the journalist Raafat Abu Ayesh (27) years old from Naqab, who was arrested while practicing his journalistic work covering a stand for Palestinian students at Beersheba University. He was subjected to many violations such as interrogating him for long hours, handcuffed and tied to the chair, and deprived of meeting his lawyer. The occupation authorities pursue the policy of arresting journalists and activists in an attempt to undermine their social, cultural and political role.
Regarding the detention based on social media activities, tens of arrest cases have been recorded this year. The prosecution justified this kind of detention as posing a threat to the state of occupation, because it contained inciting expressions.
Targeting university students
The occupation authorities launched a fierce attack against the university students in 2021, where tens of them have been arrested in an attempt to prevent them from enjoying their basic rights in participation in political life. Through using this policy, the occupation intends to intimidate Palestinian students and deprive them of their right to practice and participate in union and student activities, breaching all international charters and treaties which guarantee this right. A case in point is arresting (35) students from Birziet University after visiting the house of the detainee Muntaser Shalabi, and arresting (100) students during 2021.
The policy of administrative detention and the hunger strikes as a response
(1595) orders of administrative detention have been issued in 2021, where this year witnessed an increase in the number of detainees who faced the policies of the occupation. The most prominent policy used by the occupation authorities is the administrative detention "without charge or trial", which is faced by hunger strike. (60) Administrative detainees have entered a hunger strike, in addition to collective hunger strikes conducted by detainees of Islamic Jihad.
The institutions followed many transformations that accompanied the issue of individual strikes, which is related to holding detainees in bad conditions in spite of the deterioration of their health conditions.
The policy of administrative detention was and still is the most prominent policy that forced the detainees to engage in individual strikes, in addition to a number of abusive policies, such as deliberate medical ignorance (slow killing), solitary confinement, arbitrary transfer, and repression and torture in interrogation centers.
The administration of prisons continued practicing a series of abusive and retaliatory measures against detainees on hunger strike, which constitute part of the systematic policies, in an attempt to force detainee end their strike, such as; depriving them of family visits, prohibiting lawyer meeting, repeated transfer between prisons and isolation in inappropriate cells.
Occupation authorities delay responding to detainees' demands in order to cause them serious health conditions, in which it will be hard for detainees to be treated later.
The military courts were the basic tool to inforce the policy of administrative detention, through breaching the guarantees of fair trial such as refusing to inform the detainee and his lawyer about the charges.
It is worthy to mention that the majority of detainees have suspended their hunger strike after making agreements that determine the period of their detention.
Financial penalties
The Israeli occupation authorities exploit the Palestinian detainees financially by imposing compensations and fines against detainees and their families. There are two kinds of fines: the first one is related to courts and sentences, the second one is related to penalties, which is imposed by the administration of prison illegally.
The average of fines imposed against Palestinian detainees annually is nearly (15 million shekels). This sum is transferred directly to fund the Israeli military courts, army and prisons' administration.
Children were the major victims for these fines in 2021, where they got arrested without any charge. They are subjected to many violations which contradict the Convention on the Rights of the Child, where 100% of minor detainees are sentenced to financial penalties. This act became a firm policy to take revenge of Palestinian childhood and make money. The families of the detainees, especially the minors, are forced to pay the financial fines imposed on their children in order to set them free, and if they did not pay the detainee will be held at prison for months or years.
However, there is another aim of the financial fines which is the collective punishment against Palestinian families, through putting them in a real economic crisis. It is worthy to mention that the Palestinian National Authority has stopped paying the fines imposed on detainees since 2014, to prove for the occupying state that we will not be partners in the crime.
The occupation invented a new means to rob the money of detainees, which is represented in financial penalties imposed on detainees, starts from (200 shekels) and reaches to (5000 shekels). This penalty is justified by (breaching the laws of prisons' administration).
Situation of detainees in Israeli prisons
Palestinian detainees are subjected to different kinds of violations in Israeli prisons, which affect the rights guaranteed to them in accordance with the international standards of detainees.
Medical ignorance and slow killings
Depriving detainees of appropriate medical care and procrastinating in providing treatment are systematic measures conducted by the Israeli authorities to undermine the will and body of Palestinian detainees.
Through monitoring the health conditions of detainees, it is obvious that the level of medical care is very poor, especially with the spread of Coronavirus among detainees. Due to the difficult health conditions in Israeli prisons, tens of detainees have been martyred since the beginning of the occupation, and the number of sick detainees has risen. Therefore, medical care of detainees has become a means of blackmail by the Israeli authorities, where the administration of prisons including jailors and medical staffs have went too far in the methods that increase the torture and suffering against detainees.
Accordingly, (72) detainees have been martyred in Israeli prisons due to medical ignorance since 1967, where there are (600) sick detainees who need intensive health care, (4) detainees who suffers from cancer, such as Naser Abu Hmaid, in addition to (14) detainees at least have tumors in different degrees.
The most prominent medical crime committed in 2021 is the murder of the detainee Sami Al-Omour. He martyred in 18 December 2021 after being subjected to a series of violations during transferring him by the "Bosta" vehicle, and making him wait for long hours before taking him to the hospital. He remained 14 hours at Beersheba prison before transferring him to hospital, neglecting his bad health condition.
Solitary confinement
The occupation prison service did not ever stop using the solitary confinement policy, where it’s the most prominent systematic policies that the occupation system uses to target the detainees physically and psychologically.
This policy is the most dangerous and cruelest kind of violations practiced by the Israeli authorities against detainees, which has become a systematic method, where the detainee is imprisoned for long time individually in a dark, narrow and dirty cell.
In 2021, the detainees' institutions monitored isolating tens of detainees, which increased after the "operation of freedom tunnel", where the confrontation between the detainees and the prison service became more serious. The prison service isolated a number of detainees, from the Islamic Jihad Group, including the six detainees who were able to set themselves free from Jalbou prison last September, this came as a punishment for their actions. Some sections have been turned into isolation cells, such as section (6) at Negev prison, which was burnt in a refusal of the punishments against the Islamic Jihad detainees. 14 detainees have been isolated in burnt rooms without any belongings for more than 35 days.
It is worthy to mention that the isolation process undergo many levels, where detainees witnessed collective solitary confinement, through turning some sections into cells, by taking out all their belongings. This coincides with the incursions and suppression attacks that took place in all prisons. The last of which, is what happened with women detainees at Damoun prison of unprecedented attacks and torture actions and isolating three of them, such as Shoruq Dwayyat, Marah Bakeer and Muna Qaa'dan, which was followed by a acts of suppression at Nafha prison, where many detainees are still at the solitary confinement as a punishment till the issuance of this report.
The institutions also monitored an increase in the number of detainees, who started to suffer from psychological health conditions, due to this policy in comparison with previous years.
Policy of collective punishment in Israeli prisons
The administration of prisons escalated the use of collective policy against detainees in 2021, especially after the "freedom tunnel" escaping, through collective punishment including detainees of Islamic Jihad. This policy is represented in a series of abusive measures and systematic violations, and imposing a higher level of violence such as isolation, preventing visits and imposing high fines.
Detainees faced this policy through organized struggle methods which took part by all detainees, represented in the hunger strike conducted by the detainees of Islamic Jihad.
Since 2019, detainees witnessed an increase in suppressive measures as one of the most prominent tools of collective punishment policy, during which dozens of detainees were injured. A case in point is the attacks took place at Jelboua prison, especially after the "freedom tunnel" escaping, where tens of detained were subjected to torture and punitive measures. Many detainees got injured, especially those who are held at section (3) after the confrontation escalated between detainees and the administration of prison. The confrontation extended to "Negev" and "Remon" prisons.
Obstacles to regular family visits
Family visit is of the basic rights to detainees guaranteed by international charters, where the international agreements included obvious texts in this regards, and guaranteed the right to receive visitors on a regular basis. A case in point is article (116) of the Fourth Geneva Convention, stipulating "Every internee shall be allowed to receive visitors, especially near relatives, at regular intervals and as frequently as possible. As far as is possible, internees shall be permitted to visit their homes in urgent cases, particularly in cases of death or serious illness of relatives".
Such texts remained as a favor given by the occupation authorities to the Palestinian detainees whenever they decide and taken at any time under feeble pretexts. The occupation authorities have resorted to this measure in order to abuse detainees and used it as a collective punishment procedure, where they prevented the vast majority of detainees from relatives' visits, including their children and parents. Furthermore, the Israeli occupation authorities have legislated laws that contradict the core of the International Humanitarian Law, and invented new methods of physical and psychological torture. Family visits were turned into a pressure and bargaining method and a means of punishment based on trivial reasons, which made it a double punishment for the detainee and his family, and a complex crime committed by the occupation authorities against them.
Since the outbreak of the "Corona" pandemic on March 2020, the Israeli occupation authorities have stopped all visits under the pretext of avoiding transmitting the infection to detainees. However, it did not take the necessary measures to protect the detainees in its prisons. Instead, it used Corona as an excuse to punish the prisoners and their families, and to deprive the two parties of visiting and meeting, which exacerbated their suffering and anxiety.
(547) detainees are sentenced to life imprisonment
The number of detainees sentenced to life imprisonment has risen to (547) in 2021, where four new detainees have joined the list: Yaser Hattab, Qassem Asafreh, Nsair Asafreh and Yousef Zhour.
It is worthy to mention that 25 detainees are imprisoned before the Oslo Accord, and these detainees are called "senior detainees", being the oldest detainees in Israeli prisons. On the Palestinian level, they are known as "the fourth group", who were supposed to be released in 2014 under negotiations, but the Israeli government went back on its word and kept the detainees held. The oldest of which are the detainees Kareem Younes and Maher Younes who were detained in 1983, in addition to Muhammad Tous, Ibrahim Abu Mukh, Waleed Daqqah, Ibraheem Bayadseh, Ahmad Abu Jaber and Samir Abu Ne'meh.
By the end of 2021, the number of detainees who served more than (20) years has risen to (112) detainees, including (35) detainees served from (25) to (35) years, (13) detainees served more than (30) years, and (8) detainees served more than (35) years.
In addition, there are (49) detainees who got released in 2011 and rearrested in 2014, such as the detainee Nael Barghouthi who served (42) years on two terms, which considered the longest term in the history of the Captive Movement.
Education in Israeli prisons
Detainees in Israeli prisons were able to obtain many achievements in 2021, including their education. They pursued to follow a national strategy based on guiding each new detainee to invest in his time in prison and develop his abilities, as part of a confrontation method and to protect themselves from the policies of jailors.
According to the latest information, there are (113) detainees who pursued their education and had their BA degree through Al-Quds University and (564) detainees has the BA from Al-Quds Open University.
As for the master’s program through Al-Quds University/ Abu Dis, the number of detainees enrolled is (49), and the number of those enrolled through the University of Palestine in the Gaza Strip is (44) detainees, in addition to (486) who met the conditions of the Secondary School Exam (Tawjihi).
Liberated sperm (freedom ambassadors)
Many detainees were able to make a new life and have children from behind the bars of Israeli prisons through the liberated sperm, especially detainees with long terms. The detainee Ammar Zeben from Jenin was the first detainee to succeed in this experience on August 2012, which increased the motivation for other detainees and their wives to go through this experience.
Thereafter, sperm liberation operations continued, and detainees' wives gave birth to tens of children. In recent years, attempts have increased and the number of children who came through this procedure is (102), the last of which was the detainee Nahed Hmaid from Gaza Strip, who had twins by the liberated sperm. It must be noted that the occupation authorities, as soon as they know of the birth of a child through a liberated sperm, they begin to take revenge of the detainee who took this step, by imposing disciplinary punishments such as: increasing his term, isolating him, and imposing high fines against him, in addition of taking revenge of the children who came through this procedure by refusing to recognize their birth certificate or ID numbers given to them by the Ministry of Interior. In addition, they are deprived to visiting their fathers in Israeli prisons.
However, there are some cases of liberated sperm children who succeeded in visiting their parents inside prisons, such as the child Milad Walid Daqqa, after conducting a DNA test to prove her lineage, and submitting a petition to the occupation courts to allow her to visit.
Changes on the legal and political levels
In this aspect, the report monitors the Israeli political and legislative attempts regarding Palestinian detainees, which affects the rights guaranteed to them in accordance with the international law.
Designating 6 human rights organizations as terrorist organizations
Since the decision of the Israeli Minister of Army of designating six Palestinian civil society organizations as “terrorist” organizations under the Israeli Anti-Terrorism Law of 2016, and following his decision by a military order granting the army a permission to “pursue them and close their headquarters”, the organizations have been exposed to the imminent danger of closing them and prosecuting their employees. This decision came as an attempt to inforce the occupation policy based on apartheid and systematic discrimination, by imposing control over the Palestinian people and silencing the voices of defenders of their rights.
After two months of designating the six organizations as terrorist organizations: (Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, Defense for Children International, Al-Haq, Union of Agricultural Work Committees, Union of Palestinian Women's Committees and Bisan Center for Research and Development), the organization continue to work to achieve their goals in exposing the racist occupation regime and exposing its crimes, despite the continuous obstacles they face in monitoring and documenting human rights violations.
These organizations contributed since decades in activities of the Palestinian civil society, and participated in improving human and detainees' rights, protecting children, supporting women and reinforcing the research, agricultural and economic aspects.
The occupation's policies in Jerusalem
The judicial advisor of the occupation Avichai Mandelblit and the Minister of Justice Gedon Saer approved the resolution of withdrawing the Jerusalemite ID from the liberated detainee, the lawyer Salah Hamouri on October 2021, under the pretext that he poses a threat to the state and citizens, disloyalty to Israel and affiliation to the Popular Front).
Hamouri was handed an order on September 2020 provides for the intention of the Ministry of Interior in the Israeli Government to withdraw the Jerusalemite ID from him.
It is worthy to mention that Hamouri served nearly nine years in Israeli prisons and he was prevented to enter the West Bank. In 2016, his wife was prevented from entering to Palestine.
The occupation authorities continued to implement the decision of the Minister of the Army issued last year, to cut off the salaries of Palestinian detainees from Jerusalem on the pretext that they “receive monthly salaries from the Palestinian Authority, which encourages them to do terrorist actions and carry out operations,” according to their description.
Through the past two months, the occupation authorities carried out incursions to houses of liberated detainees, and confiscated their money and imposed a seizure on their bank accounts.
The Israeli authorities also cut off the health insurance for more than 30 detainees in Israeli prisons and their families, as a means of collective punishment.
They also imposed house arrest on four detainees: Ya'qoub Abu Asab, Naser Hedmi, Saleem Ju'beh and Majed Ju'beh for 3-6 months, and renewed the house arrest for Abu Asab for 3 months, and turned the detainee Majed Ju'beh to administrative detention.
Draft laws targeting detainees
The occupation government sought to prove its racism through declaring many draft laws and racist legislations, which target to impose abusive measures against detainees.
It should be confirmed that detainees' cause face dangerous challenges in regard with the legislations declared by the occupation government and the committees formed by a political decision to impose torture and abusive measures against detainees.
The most prominent draft law of the Israeli government is to withdraw the nationality form detainees of 1948 lands as a racist punitive measure, in addition to a draft law stipulates to decrease the number of visits to one visit each year.
The last draft law approved by the Israeli Knesset with the first read on December 2021 which aims at summoning more troops of the Israeli army to the prison service, in order to inforce the presence of the army in prisons to impose more suppression and terrorism against them.
These legislations came in line with a series of military orders issued in the last years, which increased the risk on this cause.
Robbing detainees and martyrs' allocations
It is pointed out that the war against detainees and martyrs' allocations still continuous, where it affects the Palestinian right to struggle and the right to self-determination.
Moreover, the Israeli Cabinet decided to continue the deduction of the Palestinian clearance tax under the pretext that it is paid for detainees and martyrs' families. This act came as an implementation of the law approved by the Israeli Knesset on July 2018, which allows deducting Palestinian allocations that equals the amount paid for detainees and martyrs' families.