Gaza, January 03: The Palestinian Authority (PA) has urged Israel to cancel a controversial law that it uses to hold prisoners without a trial.
Israel also uses the law to keep prisoners in jail after their terms are over.
The PA “has raised this issue before international circles and human rights groups and resorted to the Israeli courts to drop the law, but the efforts were fruitless,”, Palestinian Minister of Prisoners Affairs Eissa Qaraqe told Xinhua on Saturday.
This law “violates the Palestinian prisoners’ rights and their human values,” he added.
Israel has ratified the “illegal warrior law” in 2002 and applied it to Palestinians held in its prisons.
“Those prisoners are deprived of getting any aid from rights organizations and their families are not allowed to visit them,” he said.
Abdul Nasser Ferwana, a Palestinian prisoner rights activist says Israel had arrested about 1,000 Palestinians during its offensive against the Gaza Strip last year.
——Agencies