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May 15th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The agreement was signed after several hours of negotiations between prison officials and the senior detainees at Ashkelon jail on Monday with the assistance of Egypt.
Under the deal, those prisoners being held under administrative detention would be released at the end of their current period of detention unless fresh evidence emerged against them, a Shin Bet spokeswoman said.
Administrative detention is a controversial practice used by Tel Aviv which allows Israeli authorities to hold people, mostly Palestinians, without charge or trial for up to six months, renewable indefinitely.
Israel has also agreed to return those in solitary confinement to the general population and to permit family visits from both Gaza and the West Bank.
The news of the agreement sparked celebrations in Gaza.
An estimated 1,600 to 2,500 Palestinian prisoners began an open-ended hunger strike on April 17 to protest against Israel’s administrative detention rules, the use of solitary confinement, maltreatment of sick detainees, and difficulty in securing family visits and strip searches that are imposed on visitors.
According to an April 1, 2012 report published by the non-governmental Palestinian prisoner support and human rights association, Addameer, at least 4,610 “political” Palestinian prisoners are held in Israeli jails, 322 of whom are administrative detainees.
Independent sources, however, put the number of Palestinian inmates in Israeli jails at 11,000.
HM/JR
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