Riyad al-Ashqar, a researcher specializing in Palestinian Arab security prisoners, said on Thursday that nearly 85 percent of the prisoners held under administrative detention Israeli prisons are actually Palestinian Arabs who were previously detained, released and then arrested again.
Ashqar claimed that the purpose of the administrative detention was to allow the detention of hundreds of Palestinian Arab activists for lengthy periods of time in order to prevent them from enlisting the Palestinian Arab public for activity against Israel.
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