Israel-Hamas truce extended to a seventh day: Live updates
6:00 a.m. ET, November 30, 2023
Palestinian prisoner releases shed light on Israel’s controversial justice system in the occupied West Bank
A bus carrying a group of 30 freed Palestinian prisoners arrives in Ramallah, in the West Bank, on November 30.
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Fatima Shahin spent seven months in an Israeli prison. Authorities initially accused her of attempted murder of an Israeli in the occupied West Bank, but she was never charged with any crime.
On Friday, the 33-year-old from the West Bank city of Bethlehem was freed, one of the 39 Palestinians released that day in exchange for Israeli hostages as part of the truce between Israel and Hamas.
Some of the Palestinians were held under a murky military justice system that theoretically allows Israel to hold people for indefinite periods without trial or a charge.
A legal adviser at the Israel Defense Forces’ International Law Department told CNN on Wednesday that the different systems were in place because under international law, Israel is not allowed to “export” its own legal system to the West Bank.
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