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Analysis by Yara M. Asi looking at Israel's systematic detention and abuse of Palestinian prisoners, in the context of the November 2023 prisoner exchange and the Ahed Tamimi case. The article covers Israel's dual legal system applying civilian law to Israeli settlers and military courts for Palestinians, the use of administrative detention without charge or trial, torture in Israeli prisons, the criminalization of Palestinian civil society organizations, and the role of prisoners as symbols of resistance to occupation. This piece is valuable for research on Israeli apartheid, the dual legal system, military courts, prisoner exchanges, administrative detention, Palestinian prisoner rights, and international humanitarian law.
