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Amnesty hails ‘courageous’ protest by Palestinian detainees

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Al-Araby

A protest by hundreds of Palestinian administrative detainees boycotting Israeli military courts is a “courageous” form of defiance against the “cruel and inhuman” detention practice, rights watchdog Amnesty International said on Monday. Nearly all the 500 Palestinians held in administrative detention completed 100 days of protest on Monday against Israel’s military courts’ system. The strike, which began on 1 January 2022, aimed to raise awareness of the practice by Israeli courts – under the command ofmilitary officials or the minister of defence – to detain Palestinians for months at a time…

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