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Palestinian human rights lawyer Sahar Francis joins Hala Hanina from the Gaza Tribunal in Istanbul to discuss Israel's widespread and systematic imprisonment and torture of Palestinians.Support independent, Palestinian-led media from as little as £1 per month: https://www.palestinedeepdive.com/supportDespite Trump saying all Palestinian women and children prisoners would be released by Israel, at least 400 Palestinian children and 53 women who were incarcerated before October 7 2023 are still imprisoned in Israeli prisons. Sahar Francis reports how Israel still holds more than 9,100 Palestinians in its prisons, 5,000 of whom are held in Israeli prisons in "administrative detention" or as "unlawful combatants" – i.e. illegal detention without charge or trial.Hala Hanina is a social and political activist from Gaza and a journalist at Palestine Deep Dive. She is completing a PhD exploring the gendered dynamics of Israel’s occupation and settler-colonialism in Palestine.