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Administrative detainee Tal Yinon Dardik, who is on a hunger strike in prison, arrives at the Jerusalem District Court for a hearing on Central Command chief Maj. Gen. Avi Bluth’s appeal against a decision to release him from administrative detention, August 6, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
August 9, 2026, 6:20 pm
Court nixes general’s appeal to keep restrictions on settler accused of lurid attack
Tal Yinon Dardik says house arrest at mother-in-law’s untenable, wants to return to his outpost closer to site of March attack where settlers allegedly zip-tied a Palestinian man’s genitalia
By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff
Illustrative: A Palestinian prisoner at Ketziot Prison in southern Israel, February 26, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
August 7, 2026, 1:31 am
Number of Palestinian minors in Israeli administrative detention rises sharply — data
While Israel stopped holding Jewish suspects without due process, it has intensified practice against Arabs, expanding number of Palestinian minors held in past year from 103 to 191
By Nurit Yohanan
Defense Minister Israel Katz speaks at a pilots' graduation ceremony at the Hatzerim Airbase, July 9, 2026. (Israel Defense Forces)
July 30, 2026, 6:39 pm
Katz boasts of ending administrative detention for Jews, increasing its use against Arabs
Speaking at right-wing conference, defense minister also touts IDF demolition of 24 historic villages in southern Lebanon, which included ‘15,000 to 20,000 homes’
By ToI Staff
The Israel Prison Service dresses Palestinian prisoners set for release in shirts featuring its logo, a Star of David and the sentence in Arabic: 'We will not forget or forgive,' February 15, 2025. (Israel Prison Service)
July 21, 2026, 10:23 am
Over a dozen Western embassies call for changes to Israel’s incarceration policies
Embassies pan ‘systematic abuse’ of Palestinians in prisons, call for Israel to reinstate Red Cross visits, and express concern for detained Gaza hospital chief who is Hamas officer
By Lazar Berman and AFP
Mujahed Bani Mufleh lies in a hospital bed where he is receiving treatment after being released from Israeli jail, July 8, 2026. (JOHN WESSELS/AFP)
July 9, 2026, 11:09 am
Israeli jails a ‘graveyard,’ says freed Palestinian journalist
Mujahed Bani Mufleh was imprisoned for incitement, but never charged; separately, Israel denies detained Gaza hospital chief and Hamas officer in ‘life-threatening’ condition
By AFP and Jeremy Sharon
L-R: Kamal Adwan Hospital director Hussam Abu Safiya, in an undated screenshot taken from a Democracy Now video posted to YouTube on January 14, 2025. (Democracy Now screenshot/YouTube); A resurfaced photo from 2016 shows Abu Safiya wearing a Hamas uniform alongside other senior officers in the terror group. (Medical services – Gaza Strip)
June 16, 2026, 2:05 pm
Supreme Court rejects appeal of Gaza hospital chief, a Hamas officer detained by Israel
Hussam Abu Safiya, who runs Kamal Adwan Hospital and is a colonel in Hamas Military Medical Services, has been in administrative detention since 2024, now in solitary confinement
By Jeremy Sharon
An electronic monitoring bracelet fitted to a Jewish minor, January 5, 2026. (Courtesy of Honenu)
January 6, 2026, 1:46 am
Army OKs tracking bracelets to enforce West Bank restraining orders as settler attacks spike
Move comes after Shin Bet chief reportedly told government that devices would be effective way to limit extremists’ movement in territory; one minor said already tagged
By Stav Levaton
Israeli security forces move a blue body bag after a Palestinian man, who allegedly tried to stab soldiers, was shot and killed at the north entrance of the West Bank city of Hebron on December 14, 2025. (Hazem Bader/AFP)
December 14, 2025, 8:14 pm
IDF troops kill alleged Palestinian knifeman who tried to stab soldiers near Hebron
Would-be-stabber identified as 23-year-old Muhammad Wael al-Sharouf; Palestinian prisoner dies in administrative detention at Israel’s Ofer Prison, in the West Bank
By Emanuel Fabian and Noam Lehmann
Jared Kushner with his wife Ivanka Trump, acknowledges applause in the Knesset, Oct. 13, 2025. (Saul Loeb/Pool via AP)
December 11, 2025, 1:10 am
Israel released detained Palestinian-American teen after Kushner intervened — sources
Involvement of Trump’s son-in-law comes after he opened communication channel with Abbas deputy to thank PA for helping motion endorsing US Gaza plan through UN Security Council
By Jacob Magid
David Zini seen with ultra-Orthodox soldiers from the IDF's Hasmonean Brigade, at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, on August 6, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
November 14, 2025, 11:11 pm
Shin Bet chief said pushing electronic monitoring bracelets for violent settlers
David Zini believes measure will be more successful than restraining orders, Channel 12 reports, but hasn’t challenged Katz’s decision to stop administrative detention for Jews
By ToI Staff
Israel Police chief Daniel Levy (left) and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir during a display of weapons seized during police operations, in Beit Shemesh, April 9, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
April 15, 2025, 5:04 pm
After eight murders in Arab community at weekend, Ben Gvir demands police crackdown
Minister in charge of police said to scold senior officers, urge they make use of new law allowing use of administrative orders against criminal suspects
By Charlie Summers
Defense Minister Israel Katz (C) attends a discussion on the army conscription law at a Foreign Affairs and Defense committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on January 14, 2025.(Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 17, 2025, 1:03 pm
Katz releases all settlers in administrative detention, ties it to Palestinians’ release
‘It is better for the families of Jewish settlers to be happy than the families of freed terrorists,’ defense minister says ahead of Gaza deal
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
State Prosecutor Amit Aisman attends a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee hearing at the Knesset in Jerusalem, November 18, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 29, 2024, 10:58 am
Report: Prosecutors won’t defend administrative detention for Palestinians only
For now, Katz’s decision to cancel controversial measure only for settlers said defensible since it’s just politics; if that changes, i24 says State Attorney’s Office will object
By ToI Staff
Israeli settlers flash middle fingers from rooftops as they taunt Palestinian locals near the Tomb of the Patriarchs, as they mark a yearly Jewish religious event in Hebron in the West Bank on November 23, 2024. (Hazem Bader/AFP)
November 26, 2024, 12:04 am
US: Administrative detention was one of the few tools Israel used to curb settler violence
State Department condemns Katz’s decision to end practice only against Israeli extremists, says it will continue taking its own actions, while admitting that steps are reversible
By Jacob Magid
Religious Zionism party chief Bezalel Smotrich (center) and party members at the settlement of Efrat in the Gush Etzion region of the West Bank, October 26, 2022. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)
November 22, 2024, 3:14 pm
Coalition lauds end of administrative detention for settlers; opposition: It’s dangerous
After Defense Minister Katz decides to end practice of detention without trial for extremist Jews, right-wing politicians praise the move while left, rights group call it a mistake
By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff
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