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RAMALLAH (Ma’an) -- Israel's military court at Ofer prison issued eight Palestinian prisoners to be placed in administrative detention on Monday, the controversial Israeli policy of internment without trial or charge based on undisclosed evidence.

The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society said in a statement that five were ordered to six months in administrative detention, identified as Ammar Ibrahim Hamour, Huthaifa Subhe Jabareen, Yousef Abd al-Aziz al-Batran, Hazim Ghaleb Nayroukh, and Mohammad Hussein Abu Aeda.

Israeli forces also ordered Mohammad Yousef Awad, Alaa Salim Rujbe, and Yousef Issa Aamar to four months in administrative detention.

Rights groups have claimed that Israel's administrative detention policy, which allows internment without trial or charges under undisclosed evidence, has been used as an attempt to disrupt Palestinian political processes, notably targeting Palestinian politicians, activists, and journalists.

Although Israeli authorities claim the withholding of evidence during administrative detention is essential for state security concerns, rights groups have instead claimed the policy allows Israeli authorities to hold Palestinians for an indefinite period of time without showing any evidence that could justify their detentions.

Israel considers the majority of Palestinian political parties to be “terrorist organizations." As a result, most Palestinians who participate in the political arena in the occupied Palestinian territory risk being imprisoned by Israeli authorities.

According to Addameer, there are currently 7,000 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons, 715 of whom are held under Israel’s policy of administrative detention.