Israel frees, exiles female inmate

Hana Shalabi was set free but “forcibly” deported to the Gaza Strip by the Israeli regime on Sunday.

The female Palestinian prisoner had been on a hunger strike since February 16, when she was re-arrested without charge after being released earlier as part of a prisoner swap deal between the Islamic Hamas movement and the Israeli regime.

According to the Palestinian WAFA news agency, Shalabi had “agreed” to end her hunger strike on March 29 in return for “expulsion to the Gaza Strip for three years.” However, the non-governmental Palestinian prisoner support and human rights association, Addameer, censured the “forcible transfer and conditioned release” of Shalabi in a statement issued on Sunday.

“Forcible transfer and conditioned release is not an alternative to Israel ending its practice of administrative detention. It is imperative to demand a permanent resolution to Israel’s practice of arbitrary detention, in compliance with international humanitarian law,” Addameer stated.

Shalabi was rushed to the Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, where she underwent treatment for dehydration and weight loss.

The female Palestinian detainee, who is from the city of Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank, had been under “administrative detention,” according to her lawyers.

The administrative detention, often implemented by the Israeli regime against the Palestinian population, is a sort of imprisonment without trial or charge, allowing regime forces to make arrests without formal charges for up to six months. However, the detention order can be renewed for indefinite periods of time.

Shalabi was “beaten, abused, blindfolded and interrogated, and placed in solitary confinement” for the first week of her detention, her lawyers said.

Hana Shalabi is one of the detainees re-arrested by Israeli forces over the past few weeks. The detainees were freed from Israeli jails in October and December of last year under a deal mediated by Egypt to free 1,027 Palestinian inmates in exchange for Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.

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