The New Israel/Palestine Conflict Thread: Read the OP Before Posting

The bill states that administrative detention would be allowed only if there are "reasonable grounds for assuming" that the person belongs to a terrorist organization "whose goal is to undermine the existence of the state or commit terror against its citizens."

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According to the current version of the Emergency Defense Regulations, which this law would amend, people can be put in administrative detention even if they don't belong to a terrorist organization, as long as there are reasonable grounds to assume that they endanger "national security or the public's safety."
The bill would also create a fast-track process for adding new organizations to the official list of terrorist organizations should administrative detention orders be sought for members of an organization that isn't yet on the list.

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MK Gideon Sa'ar (New Hope - United Right) wrote on X in response to the approval that "the promotion of MK Rothman's bill to limit administrative detentions proves that the coalition is consciously working to favor the interests of extreme fringe elements over the public good. The Shin Bet warns of a security risk to Israeli citizens in such a difficult security period. Unfathomable and unforgivable."

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Canada's Foreign Minister Melanie Joly said, "We remain deeply concerned by extremist settler violence in the West Bank and condemn such acts, not only for the significant impact they have on Palestinian lives, but also for the corrosive impact they have on prospects for lasting peace. We call on authorities to ensure the protection of civilians and hold perpetrators of such violence accountable."

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said that all sanctions are "an attempt to give a huge reward to terrorism and the massacre Hamas committed against Israeli civilians and force us to establish a terrorist state in Judea and Samaria [the West Bank]."

"After October 7, a huge majority of Israel understands the terrible danger of establishing a Palestinian state," Smotrich continued. "We will continue to develop and strengthen settlements and prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state."

Ben-Gvir called Canada's sanctions "a distinctly antisemitic decision" against "Zionist movements engaged for many years in the sacred work of building our country."

"A sovereign country will not accept dictates from any country, and even more so, will not impose sanctions on its citizens out of political decisions on foreign policy matters," Ben-Gvir continued.

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On Thursday, the organization Yesh Din and lawyers Michael Sfard, Shlomo Lecker and Snir Klein, who represent four Palestinians whose herds were seized, petitioned Israel's High Court of Justice. They are demanding that the council release the cattle of some of the petitioners that are still in its custody and refund all the money it collected from the herders. The petition also notes that these are communities that have been grazing their livestock in the area for decades and that their livelihood depends on being able to put their herds out to pasture.

"In recent weeks, the council purports to be a governing body toward those who are not its residents [and] neither vote for nor are elected to its institutions," the lawyers wrote in the petition. They argued additionally that the enforcement of the bylaws on Palestinians is a "significant infringement on the exclusive governing power" of the army in the West Bank. Lecker requested from the council's lawyer invoices detailing the amounts demanded from his clients but says he has not received them.

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In a statement, Yesh Din said: "The danger posed by the pretension of the regional council, which seeks to hold the power to regulate the grazing of Palestinian herders, has enormous ramifications. This is a new and predatory form of economic violence by settlers and an authority that has distinct annexationist aspects, as it expresses the degradation of the military commander's responsibility in the occupied territory and the assignment of its authorities to civilian governmental bodies."

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