Aug. 22 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Israeli High Court of Justice has refused to cancel the administrative detention of Palestinian prisoner Jalil Awawdeh, who is in a critical condition as a result of indefinite hunger strikes to protest his situation, which in practice means indefinite imprisonment without charges.
The decision comes after another Israeli military court on Friday suspended his administrative detention status so that the prisoner could receive urgent medical care at an Israeli hospital without any restrictions.
Following this decision, Israel’s highest court has declared that this lower court “has no justification” to intervene in the matter. Likewise, the judges have argued that, after reviewing classified information about Awawdeh, there is “solid evidence” to justify her administrative detention, according to the newspaper ‘The Times of Israel’.
Awawdeh, 40, from the city of Idna in Hebron district in the southern West Bank, has been on a hunger strike in protest at her prolonged administrative detention. Currently, Israel maintains more than 680 Palestinians in this status, under conditions considered illegal by International Law.
Israel’s administrative detention policy allows for the detention of Palestinians without charge or trial for renewable intervals that typically range from three to six months, on the basis of undisclosed evidence that not even the detainee’s lawyer can see.
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