Israel Katz, the Israeli Minister of Defense, announced this Friday, November 22, that the so-called administrative detention regime, equivalent to almost unlimited police custody, would no longer apply to Israeli settlers in the West Bank.
While “the Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria (the name given by Israel to the West Bank, a Palestinian territory it has occupied since 1967) are subject to serious Palestinian terrorist threats (…) and unjustified international sanctions are adopted against the settlers [ou des entreprises oeuvrant à la colonisation]”It is not appropriate for the State of Israel to apply such a harsh measure against settlers,” Israel Katz said in a statement, referring in particular to recent US sanctions.
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