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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Julia Frankel

Israel holds over 1,200 detainees without charge. That's the most in 3 decades, a rights group says

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Israel is holding over 1,200 detainees — nearly all of them Palestinians — without charge or trial, the highest number in over three decades, an Israeli human rights group said Tuesday.

The detainees, 99% of whom are Palestinians, are held under Israel's policy of “administrative detention," without trial and under allegations that Israeli authorities keep secret.

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