Israeli military intelligence believes that only a quarter of the Palestinian detainees from Gaza held by Israel are fighters, according to a joint investigation released on Thursday by the Israeli-Palestinian magazine +972, the Hebrew-language magazine Local Call, and the British newspaper The Guardian.

Among those detained are thousands arrested under Israel’s 2002 Unlawful Combatants legislation, which allows authorities to seize individuals if they believe they are linked to organisations deemed ‘unlawful’, such as Hamas, even if they cannot tie the individual to a specific act.

The joint investigation revealed that one of those detained was an 82-year-old woman with Alzheimer’s who was jailed for six weeks, and a single mother separated from her young children, who she later foun

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