The Israeli military occupation has turned Palestine into an “open-air prison” where Palestinians are “constantly confined, surveilled and disciplined,” according to a UN expert.
In a new report for the Human Rights Council, Francesca Albanese, the UN’s special rapporteur on human rights in Palestine, said that Israel has crushed basic human rights and used mass incarcerations as a means of quashing resistance during its 56-year governance of the Occupied Territories.
The report stated that since 1967, more than 800,000 Palestinians, including children as young as 12, have been arrested and detained under authoritarian rules enacted, enforced and adjudicated by the Israeli military.
Albanese said 5,000 Palestinians, including 160 children, are currently detained and 1,100 are being held without charge or a trial.
