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RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- An Israeli court extended, on Thursday, the detention of Palestinian female writer Lama Khater, 42, for eight more days, that is the sixth extension since her detention from her Hebron-area home in the southern West Bank on July 24.

the Palestinian Prisoner's Society (PPS) said that the Israeli Ashkelon military court in southern Israel extended Khater's detention for eight more days reportedly to continue interrogation.

The writer has been undergoing harsh interrogation for some 20 hours per day, handcuffed and feet tied to the chair on which she is seated, in order to get her to sign a confession paper.

Khater is a Palestinian writer and a mother of five from the southern West Bank district of Hebron, was detained for her anti-occupation writings and was accused of incitement and being a member in an illegal organization, which are charges she has rejected.