Arab League requests international inspection of Israel's prisons

The Arab League has expressed its concerns about the deteriorating conditions for Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails and stressed that Israel must abandon its policy known as administrative detention, Al-Arab Al-Yawm news website reported.

The Israeli occupation authorities use administrative detention to indefinitely hold Palestinians based on “secret evidence” without trial or being convicted of any crime.

In a press statement issued on Wednesday, the Arab League called for international inspections of Israeli prisons and demanded an end to violations committed against Palestinian detainees. It also highlighted the need for exerting all possible efforts towards releasing those detainees being held in administrative detention, who are currently on hunger strike to protest against their imprisonment.

The Arab League called on Israel to apply all relevant human rights conventions and agreements, including the Fourth Geneva Convention, and to sign additional protocols that are related to opening the prisons up to international inspectors entrusted to monitor the fair treatment of detainees.