Honenu Attorneys Rom (L) and Keidar (R); Photo credit: Honenu
Wednesday, September 11, 2024, 16:32 Honenu Attorneys Adi Keidar and Nati Rom are representing four Yehuda and Shomron residents who have been under administrative detention for a month. The police were not able to find any evidence against them, and they were not given the benefit of a trial before Defense Minister Yoav Gallant served them with the orders. One order is for four months, and the remainder are for six months. The detainees, some of whom are married and have children, were detained on suspicion of causing civil disturbances in the Shomron. Attorneys Keidar and Rom appealed to the Supreme Court on behalf of the detainees and are demanding their immediate release. In total, Minister Gallant has signed 25 administrative detention orders against Jews since he took office in December 2022, more than any other defense minister has signed.
Attorney Keidar stated, “The aim of our Defense Minister, the GSS and their administrations is to attempt to placate foreign governments disturbed by alleged ‘settler violence’ and has resulted in these administrative detentions. Yehuda and Shomron residents are paying with their lives on the roads and on the battlefields to further that aim. The time has come for the security authorities to stop persecuting pioneers in Yehuda and Shomron and devote all of their resources to eradicating enemies of the State.”
Attorney Rom added, “The Defense Minister and the head of the GSS are responsible for the most serious security failure since the founding of the State of Israel. They refuse to abandon the faulty philosophy that led to the October 7 tragedy, and choose to persecute Yehuda and Shomron residents while they release murderous terrorists, among them senior Hamas members, using the excuse of ‘an overcrowded prison crisis’. If there is such a crisis, then Yehuda and Shomron residents who were detained despite a lack of evidence and without the benefit of a trial should be released. We will fight with all legal means at our disposal, and we will demand the immediate release of the detainees.”