Today, Saturday, the Captive Club said that the Israeli occupation authorities continue to expand the crime of arbitrary administrative detention against the Palestinians, under the pretext of having a (secret file), as their number reached (1016) administrative detainees, including (6) Children and female captives, and this percentage is the highest since 2003.

The Captive Club stated in a statement that the number of administrative detention orders issued since the beginning of this year amounted to about (800), and the highest percentage of them were new administrative detention orders.

The administrative detainees are held in three central prisons: (Ofer, the Negev, and Megiddo), where the number of administrative detainees in (Negev) prison (442), (340) in (Ofer) prison, and (131) in (Megiddo) prison. The rest of the detainees are in other prisons, noting that these numbers are until the end of March.

The Captive Club added, in a statement, that the crime of administrative detention, which constitutes one of the most prominent and most serious crimes it carries out against the Palestinians, has increased significantly since last year, compared to the past few years. In January of last year, the number of administrative detainees was about (500), and at the end of last year their number exceeded (850).

The Captive Club indicated that the Israeli occupation authorities issued, over the past nine years, about 13,000 administrative detention orders, the highest percentage during the past year, compared to the past few years, when the number of orders reached (2409).

The Captive Club pointed out that 80% of the administrative detainees are former detainees who spent years in the occupation prisons, including under administrative detention.

The occupation authorities aim, through the crime of administrative detention, to undermine any effective state in Palestinian society, on several levels, and do not exclude any group from this, especially in light of the current escalation of the confrontation.

It is worth mentioning that the occupation authorities resort to administrative detention, against those against whom they cannot file an indictment, under the pretext of having a secret file, and as a (retaliatory) measure, based on the Emergency Law that it inherited from the British Mandate, and the occupation courts are complicit, through their decisions, in consolidating This crime by carrying out the orders of the occupation intelligence.

The Captive Club reviews the case of detainee Wael Abdel Hafez Awadat (51 years old) from Aqabat Jabr camp / Jericho, who was arrested on 3/27/2023 and an administrative detention order was issued against him, for a period of 6 months. The detainee Awadat is the father of the two martyrs, Ibrahim and Raafat Awadat, who were martyred on the sixth of February of this year, along with three other martyrs. Qasi is in Ofer detention center, and he is still arrested.

The Awadat family was subjected to a policy of collective punishment, and to repeated acts of abuse by breaking into their house, harassing them, and threatening them. On February 4, 2023, the occupation forces raided the family's house and demolished its facade.

The detainee, Awadat, had been arrested several times previously, since the nineties, as well as in 2006, and spent a total of two years, married and the father of six sons and daughters.