Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Monday signed three administrative detention warrants for right-wing activists for periods of half a year, four months, and three months respectively. One of the detainees is meant to be married in about two months.
The detainees join an additional five administrative detainees who were detained by Minister Gallant's order after the deadly terror attack near Eli last month.
Two of the detainees who were detained today were released by the court two weeks ago after the judge denied the police's request to extend their detention and ruled for them to be released.
This morning, the three were arrested under arrest warrants for questioning, in the beginning, they were told that they would be brought to court, but for hours they were not brought for proceedings, and now, as mentioned, the Defense Minister signed administrative detention warrants.
The Honenu advocacy organization criticized the warrants: "A government that claims to be fully nationalist is breaking records for administrative detention warrants for the best of our boys, and all this parallel to record terror and bereavement. They're only strong against Jews. What a disgrace."
The journalist Carmel Dangor tweeted: "Rabin government after the Baruch Goldstein's massacre: 8 Jewish administrative detainees. The Netanyahu government with Ben-Gvir and Smotrich: 8 Jewish administrative detainees at once - all in all, 12 since the government was formed.
Two of the 12 were sent to administrative detention during the previous government, but their detentions were extended during the current government's rule."