Palestinians protest in front of the offices of the Red Cross in the West Bank city of Nablus, calling for immediate intervention to release prisoners from Israeli prisons, especially women and children, Nablus, West Bank, March 12, 2015.

500% Increase in Palestinians Detained without Trial in 2015

Israeli occupation authorities have issued 319 administrative detention orders for Palestinians since the beginning of 2015, a rights group said Friday, April 3, six times as many as they did the previous year. The statistics, released by the Palestinian Center for Prisoner Studies, suggests a massive increase in Israel’s incarceration of Palestinians without charge or trial…