Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the complaint submission to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention by Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights and Addameer Prisoner Support on the arrest and detention of Layan Kayed, Elyaa Abu Hijla and Ruba Asi by the Isareli military authorities.

We are aware of the complaint submission dated 2 October 2020 to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention by Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights and Addameer Prisoner Support on Israel's continued detention of Layan Kayed, Elyaa Abu Hijla and Ruba Asi. The UK remains concerned about Israel's extensive use of administrative detention. According to international law, administrative detention should be used only when security makes it absolutely necessary rather than as routine practice and as a preventive rather than a punitive measure. We continue to call on the Israeli authorities to comply with their obligations under international law and either charge or release detainees.