Palestinian groups and institutions related to the captives’ affairs launched a domestic and international campaign to put pressure on the Zionist regime with the aim of ending administrative detention.
According to Al-Jazeera, the groups and institutions held two simultaneous press conferences, one in front of the UN headquarters in Ramallah and the other in front of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Gaza, announcing the launch of the campaign.
The campaign is being launched domestically, in Arabic and internationally to emphasize the right of prisoners to stop this policy.
Administrative detention is a sentence of imprisonment without charge by the Zionist regime and lasts for six months and can be extended.
The head of the Palestinian Prisoners of War Association said in a speech at the Ramallah conference that efforts should be made at all levels to end the policy of administrative detention.
He criticized government institutions that take a conventional stance and do not go beyond criticism, saying that in the eyes of the Zionist regime, this kind of conventional international stance is a green light to continue its actions.
The campaign includes public, media, and diplomatic mobilization at the domestic, Arab, and international levels, with the participation of domestic and international human rights organizations and official bodies such as the State Department.
At the Gaza conference, Khalid al-Batash, one of the leaders of the Islamic Jihad movement, said on behalf of the participating institutions and groups that administrative detention was an injustice to the people of the West Bank, Jerusalem and Gaza.
He called on the Palestinian people everywhere to take constructive action and to pressure the Zionist regime to abandon its policy of administrative detention.
Al-Batash called on domestic and international human rights organizations to take legal action to stop and deal with administrative detention.
He added that the prisoners inside the Zionist regime’s prisons will soon take measures to release such detainees.
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Club said 13 prisoners were still on hunger strike, 12 of them in protest of administrative detention.
About 4,850 prisoners are being held in Israeli prisons.