They have not been successful in their bid for recognition as political prisoners or even prisoners of war, categories that should entail special protections. Nor have they been able to win repeal of the practice of administrative detention, introduced by British authorities in the 1940s as an emergency regulation to punish Palestinian resistance fighters and Jewish paramilitary org
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