Israel orders 16-year-old Palestinian girl to be held for 4 months under administrative detention

LONDON: Israeli authorities have ordered a 16-year-old Palestinian girl, Rimas Dweikat, to be held in prison for four months under an administrative detention order.

Such orders allow Israel to detain individuals for up to six months without charge or trial, and they can be renewed indefinitely. The evidence against them is not disclosed.

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society said on Thursday that 21 of the 90 Palestinian women currently in Israeli prisons were being held under administrative detention orders.

Dweikat is a high school student and one of three Palestinian girls under the age of 18 who are being held in prison. She was detained on Nov.