A coalition of hundreds of Palestinian and Arab NGOs have called on human rights and civil organizations, led by the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross, to put the Israeli occupation under pressure to free all Palestinian detainees languishing in its jails and end the administrative detention policy.

The coalition reported that 780 Palestinians, including two women and four children, are held by IOF under administrative detention without charge or trial.

In a statement signed by 292 NGOs, the coalition said that the Israeli occupation authorities have issued 1,350 administrative detention orders against Palestinians this year and called for an end to such systematic policy.

It also called for holding the widest international campaign of solidarity with Palestinian detainees in general and administrative detainees in particular, noting that there have been 50 Palestinian detainees participating in an open-ended hunger strike in protest against their arbitrary administrative detention without charge or trial.

The coalition condemned in the strongest possible terms the continued detention by the Israeli occupation, the military occupation state, of around 4,650 Palestinians in 23 jails and detention facilities.

According to the statement, 32 female detainees, nearly 180 minors, and 600 sick detainees, including 22 cancer patients, are among the Palestinian detainees in the Israeli occupation's jails.

"The continued detention of Palestinian prisoners, which constitutes a grave violation of international humanitarian law, especially the Third and Fourth Geneva Conventions on the treatment of prisoners of war and detainees, is also a war crime according to Article 85, Paragraph 5 of Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions," the coalition stressed.

The NGOs urged Arab, regional and international official and human rights institutions to work on the internationalisation of the issue of prisoners and administrative detainees.

They called for exposing the arbitrary practices and measures used by the Israeli occupation against Palestinian detainees in violation of their rights.

The groups urged the member states to the Geneva Conventions to oblige the occupying and apartheid state, under Common Article 1, to respect their obligations under the Third and Fourth Geneva Conventions to protect prisoners and civilians.

They demanded the Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Territories to study the situation of male and female prisoners in the prisons of the occupier and to discuss it with the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva. They also demanded the United Nations and the Human Rights Council to hold an “extraordinary session” to discuss the conditions of Palestinian prisoners and detainees in Israeli occupation prisons.