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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Addameer Sends a Submission to the United
Nations Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the
Palestinian Territories Titled “Illegal and Arbitrary: The Deprivation
of Liberty of Palestinians in Occupied Territories”</h1>
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<p>13-11-2022
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<div><p><span><span><span><span><span><span>This week,
Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association sent a
submission to Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese in response to her </span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.ohchr.org/en/calls-for-input/2022/call-submissions-thematic-report-human-rights-council-52nd-session-deprivation"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>call for input</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span><span><span><span><span><span>
for her upcoming thematic report to the Human Rights Council 52nd
session on deprivation of liberty in the occupied Palestinian territory.
Her report will look at the practices and effects of Israel’s
systematic arrest and detention of Palestinians, including the charges
and laws used to justify deprivation of liberty; the effect on
detainees, their families, and their communities; the most targeted
geographic areas and groups of people; and the structural use of
inhumane detention conditions, torture, and ill-treatment, and denial of
fair trial guarantees. </span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Addameer’s submission addresses
these themes and questions by analyzing Israel’s use of arbitrary
detention policies and practices to repress Palestinians' struggle for
self-determination and liberty. The submission concludes that the
increased systematic practice of arbitrary detention undertaken by the
Israeli occupation forces is upheld by the Israeli settler-colonial and
apartheid regime. Violence is imbued at each stage of arrest: upon
arrest and transfer to detention centers and during detention and trial.
These methods of deprivation of liberty are central to the practices of
the Israeli occupation, yet they are differentially applied
geographically across the occupied Palestinian territories in violation
of international law. </span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>The submission details the
Israeli legal frameworks and military detention practices designed to
arbitrarily deprive Palestinians of their right to liberty in violation
of international law. The Israeli occupation authorities consistently
utilize military orders to maintain control over and enact collective
punishment on the Palestinian people under the guise of protecting
“security.” In practice, this system criminalizes all aspects of
Palestinian life by authorizing arbitrary arrests for Palestinian
movements, group membership, gatherings, use of social media, and
peaceful political activity. Once the occupation authorities arrest
Palestinians for these kinds of acts, they continue to violate their
international legal rights by denying them access to minimal fair trial
guarantees and subjecting them to abhorrent detention conditions. This
system of arbitrary arrest is further illustrated by the Israeli
occupation’s use of administrative detention. Authorized by military
order, Israeli forces consistently and systematically issue
extrajudicial administrative detention orders to Palestinians, allowing
them to detain and interrogate Palestinians indefinitely without charge
or trial under the guise of “security” based on “secret evidence.” </span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>The submission also examines
Israel’s illegal and systematic practices of torture and ill-treatment,
inhumane detention conditions, and illegal prison transfers. As
documented by Addameer and other human rights organizations, the
conditions Palestinians are consistently subjected to in Israeli
military prisons are also in clear violation of international law.
Further, by illegally transferring detainees across the Green Line,
Israeli occupation forces make it nearly impossible for family members
to visit their loved ones. They also systematically enforce other
collective punishment measures such as demolishing the homes of
prisoners, arresting family members, or even detaining family members as
hostages. Similarly, the Israeli authorities’ arrest process unjustly
targets Palestinians in certain geographic areas, such as East
Jerusalem, as well as specific groups for raids and mass arrests, such
as former detainees, students and teachers, politicians, journalists,
human rights defenders, and even children. </span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>These illegal arrest and
detention practices clearly amount to widespread collective punishment.
In fact, Israel relies on a two-tiered legal system that subjects
Palestinian detainees to a vastly different legal system and treatment
in detention than Israeli detainees. In conjunction with Israeli
military arrest and detention practices, these strategies of systemic
deprivation of liberty amount to collective punishment and clearly
violate international laws and standards.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Full submission is <a href="https://www.addameer.org/sites/default/files/Addameer%20Submission%20on%20the%20Illegal%20and%20Arbitrary%20Israeli%20Practices%20of%20Deprivation%20of%20Liberty%20of%20Palestinians%20in%20Occupied%20Territories.pdf"><b>here</b></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span><span> <br></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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