Human rights watch on Sunday demanded Israel to put an immediate end to the arbitrary detention of Palestinian activists who participate in peaceful anti-wall marches in occupied West Bank villages.
In a report, the human rights watch noted that Israel is building most of its segregation wall inside the West Bank rather than along the green line, in violation of international humanitarian law.
According to the report, the Israeli occupation forces in recent months have arbitrarily arrested and denied due process rights to several dozen Palestinian anti-wall protesters.
Israel detained Palestinians who advocate non-violent protests against the segregation wall and charged them based on questionable evidence including confessions taken under coercion.
Israel also denied detainees from villages that have staged protests against the wall, including children, access to lawyers and family members. Many of the protests have been in villages that lost substantial areas of land when the wall was built.
“Israel arrests people for peacefully protesting a barrier built illegally on their lands that harms their livelihoods,” Sarah Whitson, the HRW Middle East director said.
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