11.   Administrative detention must be approved by a judge and reviewed every six months.

12.   Administrative detentions, a holdover from the pre-state British Mandate, have been widely denounced by international and Israeli human rights groups.

13.   After his release, he was in and out of administrative detention, often with only a few months of freedom in between.

14.   Ahmed Qatamesh was the longest-held prisoner in so-called administrative detention.

15.   Administrative detentions were first used by the British during their rule of pre-state Palestine.

16.   Also Sunday, Haaretz said the Shin Bet had placed a resident of the Gaza Strip under administrative detention for the first time in more than three years.

17.   Ahmed Qatamesh was the longest-held prisoner in so-called administrative detention, and human rights groups have campaigned for his release.

18.   Amnesty also criticized the Palestinian use of administrative detention, under which suspects can be held without trial indefinitely by order of the chief of police.

19.   Attorneys for the Lebanese detainees said the law on administrative detentions did not allow for prisoners to be held for future use as bargaining chips.

20.   Attorney Jawad Boulos said that on Sunday, Khaled Dalaisha and Ali Jaradat were expected to be freed from administrative detention.