WEST BANK ARBITRARY DETENTION, AND TORTURE In the West Bank, 175 permanent military AND OTHER ILL-TREATMENT checkpoints and other roadblocks, as well as Palestinian prisoners were subjected to unfair scores of temporary irregular barriers, trials before military courts, prolonged solitary continued to prevent Palestinians’ access to confinement and inadequate medical essential services while Israelis could use the treatment, and illegal transfer from the OPT same roads freely. Israel’s fence/wall in the to prisons in Israel. According to Addameer, a West Bank continued to impact agricultural Palestinian prisoner support organization, livelihoods of 150 Palestinian communities. It 500 were administratively detained without also trapped more than 11,000 Palestinians charge or trial at the end of 2021, and 170 outside the fence/wall while accommodating children were incarcerated. A survey by Save Israeli settlements. the Children found that officers beat over FORCED EVICTIONS 80% of child detainees, and denied access to a lawyer to 47%. Israeli authorities demolished buildings in the Zakaria Zubeidi suffered broken ribs and OPT, including East Jerusalem, making more jaw while in handcuffs, and Mohammed Al- than 1,000 Palestinian residents homeless in Arida was beaten on the head, after their areas designated for Israeli settlers. Among capture by Israeli police on 11 September, those forcibly evicted, women were according to the men’s lawyers. The men had disproportionately affected as their homes escaped from Gilboa Prison in northern Israel also served as their places of work and five days earlier. income generation, especially in shepherding DISCRIMINATION communities. Israel’s army demolished Humsa village in the Jordan Valley in the OPT Israel’s system of governing Palestinians in February and July, destroying or through oppression and domination confiscating animal pens, residential shelters, constituted apartheid, a crime under water cisterns and food reserves. international law. Palestinians faced routine In August, the Israeli Supreme Court and systematic discrimination, and therefore adjudicated on the eviction of seven human rights violations, in the context of their Palestinian families from their homes in rights to nationality, freedom of movement, Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood in occupied the highest attainable standard of health, East Jerusalem. This followed several years of family life, education, work and participation eviction attempts, harassment by Israeli in public life. settlers and use of excessive force by Israeli Palestinian citizens of Israel were police. Seven families in Silwan, another prosecuted under incitement laws, but neighbourhood of East Jerusalem, also politicians and groups of Jewish remained at risk of forced eviction.3 supremacists continued to incite racially In the Negev/Naqab in southern Israel, motivated violence with almost total impunity. authorities repeatedly demolished buildings Police used excessive force against in seven villages, affecting 100 Palestinian Palestinian citizens of Israel demonstrating citizens of Israel. On 2 September, police against evictions in East Jerusalem and demolished the village of al-‘Araqib. The military strikes on Gaza, and carried out mass village had been demolished more than 150 arrests of organizers and participants of times since July 2010. Al-‘Araqib is one of 35 protests. Most of those arrested were charged excluded, officially unrecognized, Bedouin with misdemeanours unrelated to violence. villages in the area. On 12 May, special forces in a Nazareth police station beat at least eight bound Palestinian detainees who had been arrested at a protest.4 Amnesty International Report 2021/22 209