RAMALLAH, Thursday, December 03, 2020 (WAFA) – An imprisoned Palestinian teen today underwent a surgery at an Israeli hospital in Jerusalem to treat fractures sustained from brutal beating at the hands of Israeli forces.
Munir Muqbel confirmed that his son, Mohammad, underwent a surgery at the Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem after being brutally beaten by Israeli forces during his detention five days ago.
He added that the 16-year-old teen from al-Arroub refugee camp, north of Hebron, had platinum implanted in his left lower jawbone to treat the fracture he sustained from the brutal beating during detention.
Muqbel, the teen, was detained by Israeli forces as he was heading to his school in the camp on the morning of November 29.
An Israeli military court extended the detention of Muqbel until Sunday, December 6, as he remains held in the Israeli hospital, handcuffed to his bed, and suffering from severe pains and denied contact with his father, who is at the hospital.
Israeli forces frequently raid Palestinian houses almost on a daily basis across the West Bank on the pretext of searching for “wanted” Palestinians, triggering clashes with residents.
These raids, which take place also in areas under the full control of the Palestinian Authority, are conducted with no need for a search warrant, whenever and wherever the military chooses in keeping with its sweeping arbitrary powers.
Under Israeli military law army commanders have full executive, legislative and judicial authority over 3 million Palestinians living in the West Bank. Palestinians have no say in how this authority is exercised.
Israel’s widely condemned practice of administrative detention that allows the detention of Palestinians without charge or trial for renewable intervals ranging between three and six months based on undisclosed evidence that even a detainee’s lawyer is barred from viewing.
The US State Department has said in past reports on human rights conditions for Palestinians that administrative detainees are not given the “opportunity to refute allegations or address the evidentiary material presented against them in court.”
Amnesty International has described Israel’s use of administrative detention as a “bankrupt tactic” and has long called on Israel to bring its use to an end.
Palestinian detainees have continuously resorted to open-ended hunger strikes as a way to protest their illegal administrative detention and to demand an end to this policy, which violates international law.
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