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by IMEMC News & Agencies

Israeli authorities have issued administrative detention orders against 121 Palestinian prisoners since the beginning of March, including new orders issued Tuesday against 40 prisoners, said the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS), on Tuesday.

WAFA Palestinian News & Info Agency reports that PPS, in a recent press release, said that 12 prisoners received new detention orders without charge or trial, while the remaining 28 prisoners had their sentences renewed for the third and fourth times, including some who have served years under administrative detention.

Administrative detention is an archaic procedure, dating back to the time of British Mandate Palestine, which allows the Israeli military to hold prisoners indefinitely on secret information without charging them or allowing them to stand trial.

Palestinian detainees have continuously resorted to open-ended hunger strikes as a way to protest their illegal administrative detention and to demand an end to this policy which violates international law.

B'Tselem, Israeli information center for human rights, stresses: “International law stipulates that it may be exercised only in very exceptional cases – and then only as a last possible resort, when there are no other means available to prevent the danger.”

In the case of Palestinian detainees, Israel routinely uses administrative detention against Palestinians. Statistics show that over the years, thousands of Palestinians have been held in Israeli custody as administrative detainees for extended periods of time.

The following are the names of the 40 detainees who received administrative detention orders:

Lo’ay Masalmeh
Hebron
Six months

Yousif Hosheh
Ramallah
Six months

Ghassan Jaber
Hebron
Six months

Yousif Laham
Bethlehem
Six months

Mohammed Omar
Hebron
Six months

Abd al-Rahman Mohammed
Qalandia Refugee Camp
Six months

Hazem Himoni
Hebron
Six months

Mohammed Atta
Ramallah
Six months

Walid Mzyyin
Hebron
Six months

Rashad Krajeh
Ramallah
Six months

Monir Manasra
Hebron
Six months

Hani Mafargeh
Ramallah
Six months

Iyad Salmi
Qalqilia
Six months

Zaid Abu Fnar
Hebron
Four months

Ghassan Abu Adi
Ramallah
Four months

Ibrahim Abu Srour
Bethlehem
Four months

Shadi Abu Akr
Bethlehem
Four months

Nabil Masalmeh
Hebron
Four months

Joma’a al-Jojo
Bethlehem
Four months

Nader Taqatqa
Bethlehem
Four months

Mohammed Asi
Ramallah
Four months

Zaid Harbyat
Bethlehem
Four months

Ez Ed-din Tawfiq
Nablus
Four months

Ghassan Zawahreh
Bethlehem
Four months

Tariq Hussain
Jenin
Four months

Amir Yaish
Nablus
Four months

Sajed al-Loqta
Hebron
Four months

Khalil Zawahreh
Bethlehem
Four months

Fadi Masalmeh
Bethlehem
Four months

Abdallah Saqr
Bethlehem
Four months

Hashim Rjoub
Hebron
Four months

Ahmad Ikhlil
Hebron
Four months

Wa’el Hashash
Nablus
Three months

Yousif Ghalmi
Nablus
Three months

Zakrya Iwaidat
Hebron
Three months

Ayyob Khadoor
Bido village
Three months

Bassam Hammad
Ramallah
Three months

Mota’az Qawasmeh
Hebron
Three months

Smail Ilyyan
Bethlehem
Three months

Ahmad Rae’e
Qalqilia
Two months