"Only one in four detainees from Gaza are identified as fighters by Israel's military intelligence, classified data indicates, with civilians making up the vast majority of Palestinians held without charge or trial in abusive prisons. Those jailed for long periods without charge or trial include medical workers, teachers, civil servants, media workers, writers, sick and disabled people and children. Among the most egregious cases are those of an 82-year-old woman with Alzheimer's jailed for six weeks and of a single mother separated from her young children."
"The Sde Teiman military base at one point held so many sick, disabled and elderly Palestinians that they had their own hangar, dubbed the geriatric pen, a soldier serving there said. The scale of civilian detention indicated by Israel's own data has been revealed in an investigation by the Guardian, the Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine and the Hebrew-language outlet Local Call."
"Israeli military intelligence keeps a database of more than 47,000 named individuals whom it classifies as Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad fighters. Commanders consider it the most accurate information Israel has on enemy forces, according to multiple intelligence sources. It is based on information including files captured from Hamas, updated regularly and includes names of new recruits. In May this year the database listed 1,450 individuals in detention, whose files were marked arrested."
Classified Israeli data shows only one in four detainees from Gaza are identified as fighters, while civilians constitute the majority of those held without charge or trial. Detainees include medical workers, teachers, civil servants, media workers, writers, people with illnesses and disabilities, and children. Some individual cases include an 82-year-old woman with Alzheimer's and a single mother who found her children begging after release. The Sde Teiman base housed many elderly and disabled detainees in a separate hangar. Israeli military intelligence maintains a database of over 47,000 names, and in May it listed 1,450 individuals marked arrested; Israel had detained 6,000 under unlawful combatants legislation.
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