The Palestinian Center for Prisoners’ Advocacy condemned the Israeli Knesset’s approval of a law that allows the detention of Palestinian citizens from the Gaza Strip without presenting an indictment, setting a time limit for the detention, or allowing them to meet with lawyers, under the designation of “illegal combatant.”
The Center considers the approval of this law as a further escalation in the tightening of penalties faced by prisoners, which clearly violates all international and humanitarian laws, norms, conventions, and treaties that guarantee prisoners their legal and human rights.
The Center calls on all international parliaments, legal bodies, and human rights organizations to condemn the enactment of this law, which constitutes a clear violation of international law. The Center also clarified that the approval of the law comes amid unprecedented humanitarian conditions suffered by Gaza prisoners, who are subjected to brutal attacks by Israeli prison authorities and intelligence officers, including torture, beatings, mistreatment, and even death.
The Prisoners’ Affairs Authority mentioned that the General Assembly of the Israeli Knesset recently approved, in the second and third readings, the law concerning Palestinians detained from the Gaza Strip since the outbreak of the genocide war on October 7, 2023. The law was passed by a majority of 30 votes to 6, out of 120 Knesset members, making it immediately effective under the current legislation of the occupying state.
