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Israelis Detain Hundreds Without Trial Kafkaesque Nightmare Awaits Arrested Palestinians
Yael Stein, research director of the B'Tselem human rights group in Israel, says that administrative detention is a Kafkaesque nightmare.
"The prisoners are held on the signature of a major-general. They don't know what the charges are against them. They have the right of appeal but it's before a military court and because they don't know what they are accused of they can't present a defense.
"The detention orders are between four and six months, and when they expire the army just issues another one.
"The prisoners are held on the signature of a major-general. They don't know what the charges are against them. They have the right of appeal but it's before a military court and because they don't know what they are accused of they can't present a defense.
"The detention orders are between four and six months, and when they expire the army just issues another one.
Published on Friday, January 24, 2003 by the Guardian/UK
Israelis Detain Hundreds Without Trial
Kafkaesque Nightmare Awaits Arrested Palestinians
by Chris McGreal in Deheisheh
Nima Abu Alia's neighbors told her from bitter experience not to even bother looking for her son, Eyad, for at least a week. The 23-year-old was snatched on Wednesday from the family home in Deheisheh, near Bethlehem, by an Israeli army squad in the dead of night.
At about the same time, 24 other Palestinians were detained in raids across the West Bank after a week of escalating arrests that the government denies has anything to do with next week's general election.
The violence further intensified yesterday when three Israeli soldiers were shot dead south of the West Bank city of Hebron. The military said that Palestinians opened fire on a foot patrol near a Jewish settlement in the Hebron hills.
Islamic Hamas took responsibility, saying the shooting was retaliation for attacks by Israeli settlers and the military against Palestinians and their property in Hebron, known as a Hamas stronghold.
In the past week, the Israeli military has detained close to 200 Palestinian men in night-time raids or using undercover squads posing as Arabs to snatch them off the streets.
Israelis Detain Hundreds Without Trial
Kafkaesque Nightmare Awaits Arrested Palestinians
by Chris McGreal in Deheisheh
Nima Abu Alia's neighbors told her from bitter experience not to even bother looking for her son, Eyad, for at least a week. The 23-year-old was snatched on Wednesday from the family home in Deheisheh, near Bethlehem, by an Israeli army squad in the dead of night.
At about the same time, 24 other Palestinians were detained in raids across the West Bank after a week of escalating arrests that the government denies has anything to do with next week's general election.
The violence further intensified yesterday when three Israeli soldiers were shot dead south of the West Bank city of Hebron. The military said that Palestinians opened fire on a foot patrol near a Jewish settlement in the Hebron hills.
Islamic Hamas took responsibility, saying the shooting was retaliation for attacks by Israeli settlers and the military against Palestinians and their property in Hebron, known as a Hamas stronghold.
In the past week, the Israeli military has detained close to 200 Palestinian men in night-time raids or using undercover squads posing as Arabs to snatch them off the streets.
For more information:
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/01...
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