Palestinian held without charge dies in Israeli custody

A Palestinian detainee has died in Israeli custody after being held without charge or trial for five months.

Palestinian prisoner monitoring groups - the PA’s Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) - said on Tuesday they had been informed of Ahmad Hatem Muhammad Khdeirat’s death at Soroka Hospital in Israel.

Khdeirat, 22, was detained by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron on 23 May and placed under administrative detention, without charge or trial.

Administrative detention is a controversial Israeli policy that allows for the imprisonment of Palestinians without charge or trial.

Detainees are held for periods of three to six months, which can be extended indefinitely, and detainees are not informed of the evidence against them and have no right to appeal.

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