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| Ben Gvir: Shin Bet head ordered release of administrative detainees as Ramadan ‘gesture’ |
| 2024-03-02 |
| [IsraelTimes] National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir rails at the release of Paleostinian administrative detainees, claiming they were not in fact freed due to overcrowding. "[They were released] because of the direct order of the Shin Bet head as a ’gesture’ ahead of Ramadan," the far-right politician says in a statement, without offering any evidence for his charge against Ronen Bar. Ben Gvir says the Israel Prisons Service, which is under his authority, "has no judgement on the matter." He also fumes at Bar because the release took place on the same day two Israelis were killed in a terror shooting in the West Bank, and a day after the extension of a settler activist’s administrative detention. Israel frees 40 Palestinians in administrative detention, citing lack of space [IsrelTimes] All those freed Thursday were set for release in the month of March. |
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