Law allows Israel to arrest Gaza man minutes after his release

[ 19/01/2011 – 10:56 AM ]

 

GAZA, (PIC)– Israel arrested a Gaza man Wednesday under an unlawful combatant law minutes after releasing him.

Muhammad Abdel-Halim Fawzi Bawadi finished a seven year prison sentence by the Israelis. When he reached the Beit Hanoun border crossing to Gaza upon his release, authorities arrested him a second time.

A similar pattern was noticed in 2005, when Nassar Abbad was arrested at the Beit Hanoun crossing after serving a seven year term in Israeli occupation prisons.

Israel approved the “unlawful combatant” law, after pulling out of the Gaza Strip in December, 2005, to circumvent international laws protecting civilians. The law allows Israel to keep Gazans in detention until a suggested date without stating a release date, placing charges, offering evidence, or providing a trial. Israel had previously used to hold Gaza captives in administrative detention, but needed something to replace it after withdrawing its troops from the Strip.

A total of eight prisoners are kept behind bars, under the “unlawful combatant” law all of them from the Gaza Strip. Most of them had completed the prison terms they were sentenced to by Israel.

Page Top

Law allows Israel to arrest Gaza man minutes after his release.

Comments are closed.

%d bloggers like this: