The Israeli government will release Jewish settlers held under administrative detention in the Israeli-occupied West Bank in response to the potential release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners as part of the Gaza hostage ceasefire agreement, the Israeli defense minister’s spokesman said. .
“In light of the expected release of terrorists into the territories of Judea and Samaria (West Bank) as part of the hostage release agreement, I have decided to release the settlers who are in administrative detention,” the spokesperson announced.
Administrative detention is a practice commonly used by Israeli authorities to detain Palestinians in the West Bank without public charge or trial, often indefinitely and based on confidential evidence that is not revealed to detainees. In rare cases, the practice was applied to colonists.
Anti-Palestinian violence by extremist settlers has become an almost daily occurrence in the West Bank.
More than 500,000 Jewish settlers live in the occupied territory in settlements illegal under international law.
The West Bank has been under military occupation since 1967, when Israel seized the area from Jordan.
In November, Katz announced that the Israeli government would stop using administrative detention against Jewish settlers.
At the time, the decision was welcomed by the country’s far-right ministers, Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, who are settlers.
This content was originally published in Israel says it will release Jewish settlers from administrative detention after agreement on the CNN Brasil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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