Nablus:Israeli authorities have placed 16-year-old Palestinian detainee Rimas Asaad Dweikat under a four-month administrative detention order. This decision brings the total number of Palestinian women held in administrative detention to 21, out of 90 women in Israeli prisons.
According to Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA – English, Dweikat, a high school student, is among three Palestinian girls currently held in Israeli prisons. She was detained by Israeli forces on November 4 during a military raid on her family's home in the town of Beita, located in the Nablus governorate.
The Palestinian Prisoner's Society (PPS) reports that the number of Palestinians held in administrative detention has surged at an unprecedented rate since the onset of what they describe as a genocidal war. The number of administrative detainees has exceeded 3,100 as of last October, including numerous children under the age of 18.