According to the Palestine Center for Prisoner Studies, there are now 1,300 administrative detaines in prisons under occupation, which accounts for 25% of all Palestinian prisoners, who total 5,100.
The center also confirmed that the occupation forces significantly increased the issuance of administrative orders against prisoners this year. Since the year's beginning, there have been more than (2300 decisions made, bringing the total number of administrative prisoners to about (1300), which is the highest number since the start of the first intifada.
Al-Ashqar stated that the majority of those held under administrative detention were once-incarcerated former prisoners, the intelligence claimed that they constitute a threat to the security of the occupation, and administrative detention orders were issued against them, and hundreds of them were renewed for other periods at least twice. In addition to the three female prisoners under administrative detention, 21 under-aged, and a number of elderlies, he emphasized that administrative detention had an impact on all facets of Palestinian life.