Administrative Detention - Administrative detention is arrest without charge based on secret evidence brought forward during military tribunals, to which neither the detainee nor his/her lawyer have access to. Administrative detention is indefinitely renewable under military regulations. One of the longest Palestinian administrative detainees remained in custody for over 8 years, without ever being charged. The Israeli Prison Service holds around 3,500 each year, many of which are women (sometimes pregnant) and children. According to Addameer, Palestinian female prisoners are mainly held in two prisons located inside Israel, HaSharon and Damon, in violation of Article 76 of the Fourth Geneva Convention regulating the detention of prisoners.
Military law - Even if a crime is committed on Palestinian land, Israeli Jews go to civil court, while Palestinians go to military court, with an over 99% chance of being convicted. Hundreds are held without any charges at all, and can be held indefinitely without any trial whatsoever. Their political and legal rights differ by their race, resulting in a Palestinian conviction rate of 99.7%. This violates international law and is part of an apartheid system. (𓃠) 91.5% of complaints filed against settlers by Palestinians end in indictment. (𓃠) Unlike with civil law, death by hanging is the default punishment for fatal attacks by Palestinians on Jews, and not the other way around.
Light sentences for Settlers who harm Palestinians - Abu Khdeir's murderers attempted to kidnap a 7-year-old boy, Moussa Zaloum. The boy's family reported the attempt to Israeli police, who did not investigate the incident. (𓃠)
Police not responding to crimes reported by Palestinians - A relative of Mohammed Abu Khdeir, 63 year old Coheir Abu Khdeir was badly assaulted in an attack carried out in Shufat. When his family went to Israeli police they refused to take their complaint insisting that the 63-year-old would have to come to the police station himself. (𓃠)
Ahmed Manasrah - In 2015, 13-year-old, Ahmed Manasrah and his cousin, Hasan were accused of involvement in a stabbing attack in the illegal Israeli settlement of Pisgat Ze'ev. Hasan was shot dead, and Ahmed was chased down, struck by a vehicle and beaten by Israeli settlers, who filmed him wailing the on ground, not moving, with blood coming out of his head, being yelled it with slurs in Hebrew. Despite forensic evidence that he was innocent, Ahmed was convicted of attempted murder and sentenced to 12 years in prison. While incarcerated, he was diagnosed with schizophrenia, psychotic delusions, severe depression and suicidal ideation, for which he would be subjected to solitary confinement for months at a time.
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