Some 770 Palestinians were killed there by Israeli soldiers or settlers, according to Palestinian Authority data. At the same time, according to official Israeli data, 24 Israelis, civilians or soldiers, were killed there in Palestinian attacks or during Israeli military raids.
In the occupied West Bank, UNRWA wants to “continue its activities at all costs”
Faced with the increase in acts of violence committed by armed settlers, several Western countries (the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom and Canada in particular) have taken sanctions over the last twelve months (asset freezes, travel bans). ) against several settlers described as “extremists”.
A few days ago, the United States sanctioned for the first time an Israeli construction company active in the construction of settlements in the West Bank.
Administrative detention is a procedure inherited from the legal arsenal from the period of the British Mandate of Palestine (1920-1948), before the creation of Israel. It allows the authorities to keep a suspect in detention without having to charge him, for periods of up to several months, and which can be renewed practically indefinitely.
According to the Palestinian Prisoners Club, an NGO defending Palestinians detained by Israel, more than 3,430 Palestinians were in administrative detention at the end of August. By comparison, only eight Jewish settlers are detained under this regime to date, according to the left-wing Israeli daily Haaretz on Friday.
The announcement of the end of administrative detention for settlers comes the day after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued international arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Minister of Defense. Defense Yoav Gallant wanted by international justice for “war crimes” and “crimes against humanity”.
Mr Netanyahu categorically rejected the court's decision as a “moral failure” and a measure driven by “anti-Semitic hatred towards Israel”.
