Around 75 percent of Palestinians seized from Gaza by Israel are civilians: Report

Classified Israeli military data shows that only one in four Palestinians detained from Gaza are identified as fighters, exposing the massive scale of civilian imprisonment under Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza.

The findings, uncovered by The Guardian, +972 Magazine, and Local Call, reveal that by May, Israel had detained more than 6,000 Palestinians under its “unlawful combatants” law, which permits indefinite detention without charge or trial.

Most of those locked up without charge or trial are civilians, including doctors, teachers, writers, civil servants, children, and people with chronic illnesses or disabilities.

Among the most shocking cases is an 82-year-old woman with Alzheimer’s who was jailed for six weeks. In another, a single mother was separated from her children for 53 days, only to find them begging on the streets when she was finally released.

A soldier who served at the notorious Sde Teiman military base, in which torture and rape have of Palestinian prisoners has occurred, said it once held so many elderly, disabled, and sick detainees that they were crammed into a hangar dubbed “the geriatric pen.”

The United Nations has called Israel's treatment of Palestinians held in these camps "unacceptable".