Many of you have asked us this question.
Since the terrorist attack of October 7, 2023 by Hamas in Israel and the removal of 250 people, brought by the Palestinian armed groups to the Gaza Strip, the Israeli authorities, by invoking questions of ” security “have multiplied the arrests of Palestinians in Gaza, in the West Bank – territory occupied by Israel – and in the eastern part of Jerusalem. This policy has continued in recent days, following the release of 90 prisoners in exchange for that of three Israeli hostages.
Part of the Palestinians are imprisoned in Israel under the administrative detention regime, which allows military justice to maintain these people in detention or trials and to renew their imprisonment indefinitely. Today there are more than 3,300, out of a total of 10,000 prisoners in Israeli prisons. They have never been so numerous, according to the Israeli organization for the Defense of Human Rights Hamoked.
Since the attack on October 7 and the start of the deadly war which enlivened Gaza, the Hebrew State has hardened the conditions of detention of the Palestinians in the prisons managed by the Israeli authorities in Israel or in the West Bank; Israeli NGOs and the UN reported ill -treatment, torture and detention – about fifty, according to the Israeli press.
-Nevertheless, the status of each other differs.
The Israelis and foreigners kidnapped on October 7 by Hamas are hostages, in the literal sense of the term, a person whose life and liberation depend on obtaining a counterpart by those who hold them. Their fate and their conditions of detention have remained unknown for fifteen months.
Despite the difficulties of families, lawyers and human rights NGOs in obtaining information on Palestinian prisoners, the latter is, in their majority, imprisoned in known places of detention. Furthermore, in the clauses provided for by the cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas, a number of Palestinians exchanged against hostages are administrative prisoners, but many of them are also prisoners who have been tried and convicted, for some to very long penalties.
