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Foreign Press, Hagar Shezaf | 2.12.2020
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The army's pilot program, it seems, never took off, and hundreds are still being arrested with no warning, usually in the middle of the night
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Foreign Press, Yonah Jeremy Bob | 23.11.2020
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The IDF said that night arrests were carried out in place of daytime arrests to avoid village-wide struggles which could lead to far more casualties on both sides.
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Petition to HCJ | 8092/20 | 22.11.2020
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According to official data: in 2018-2019, 380 Palestinian minors were arrested by Israel in pre-planned night arrests; 120 of them were under age 16
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Only following HaMoked’s urgent petition was a 15-year-old boy’s detention place revealed: the military did not even tell the family their son had been taken to a hospital
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HaMoked Report | 1.10.2020
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Foreign Press, Amira Hass | 7.9.2020
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Israeli soldiers raided the home of Hamada Tamimi, confiscated phones and a camera, beat up his family and took him away. The army said his arrest was due to operational considerations
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HaMoked and the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel to the Knesset’s Internal Affairs Committee: prison visits by family and lawyers must not be banned due to the pandemic; legislation must ensure regular contact between inmates and the outside world when visits are suspended
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HaMoked to the military: minors should not be pulled out of their beds at night in order to be interrogated; the default should be to summon them to interrogation at the police station
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In response to HaMoked freedom-of-information request: Israel Prison Service provides data on the number of Palestinian minors in Israeli custody during February-April
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HaMoked to Megiddo and Ofer prisons: implement the HCJ decision and allow Palestinian minors to contact their parents by telephone without delay
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Following HaMoked petition: Palestinian minors in Israeli prisons can talk with their families over the telephone for ten minutes once every two weeks so long as the coronavirus emergency situation continues
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HaMoked to the Israel Prison Service: the corona emergency regulations must be changed to allow security inmates, especially minors, to maintain phone contact with their families and lawyers; they must also be supplied with sufficient amounts of disinfectants and hygiene products
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Israel currently holds 437 Palestinians in administrative detention, including two minors; 103 of them have been detained without charge or trial for over a year
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HaMoked complaint to the Ministry of Justice: the recurring phenomenon of ISA interrogations of minors who are kept in isolation and denied legal counsel must be eradicated
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Detention of 11-year-old boy, held without his parents’ knowledge in inadequate conditions for over 24 hours: HaMoked calls on the military to swiftly act to prevent recurrence of such an event
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Israel currently holds 456 Palestinians in administrative detention; 137 of them have been detained without charge or trial for over a year
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Foreign Press, Edo Konrad | 30.6.2019
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Palestinian children in Israeli jails classified as ‘security prisoners’ are denied the right to speak to or see their families, sometimes for months on end
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Following HaMoked’s intervention: Israel abandons its plan to deport to Jordan a Palestinian living since childhood in the West Bank. The man was released to his home after he was held for some three months in a prison ward for illegal aliens
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HaMoked petitions the High Court of Justice on behalf of a Palestinian man imprisoned in Israel as an illegal alien for over two years: Israel’s denial of family unification in the West Bank is the reason for his incarceration
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