24th*day of Palestinian administrative detainees' boycott of Israel courts

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الصحف المصرية والعربية

Palestinians held in administrative detention in Israeli prisons have reached their 24th*day of their boycott of Israel's military courts in the occupied West Bank, reported*Wafa*news agency. In an escalatory step agreed by Palestinian political parties, all 500 administrative detainees in Israeli prisons*began the new year*by refusing to show up for their court sessions. The move comes in protest against the Israeli policy of*administrative detention, which gives Israeli military authorities the powers to detain Palestinians without charge or trial for renewable periods of up to six months. Under the banner, "Our decision is freedom … no to administrative detention," administrative detainees said in a statement their move comes as a continuation of longstanding Palestinian efforts "to put an end to the […]

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