In a statement issued today, PPS emphasised the significant surge in administrative detainees, surpassing the numbers of imprisonment recorded during the First Intifada in the late 1980s-early 1990s, when numbers reached 8-10,000.

The number of Palestinians subjected to administrative detention has witnessed a sharp and alarming increase, reaching levels unseen in the past two decades, it said. Currently, there are 1,083 individuals languishing in Israeli prisons under this policy, denied the right to know the reason for their incarceration on the pretext of ‘secret’ information,...