Source: Common Dreams
“The vast majority of the Palestinians being held in Israel’s brutal detention centers are civilians, according to data from a classified Israeli military database. An investigation published Thursday by The Guardian, the Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine, and the Hebrew-language outlet Local Call reveals that of the more than 6,000 so-called ‘unlawful combatants’ detained by Israel during the first 19 months of its military campaign in Gaza, just 1,450 of them were considered by the army to be Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad militants. In its public statements, the Israeli government and media often describe every Palestinian detained or killed in Gaza as a ‘terrorist’. … Israel’s Unlawful Combatants Law enacted in 2002, allows the military to hold people in detention if they have ‘reasonable grounds’ to believe they participated in ‘hostile activities against the state of Israel’ or are a member of a group that has.” (09/04/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/news/most-gaza-detainees-civilians