Israel extends order to deny detained Palestinians from seeing a lawyer

Israel’s Knesset has approved an extension of an emergency order that allows Israeli authorities to deny detained Palestinians from Gaza the option to meet with lawyers, according to a report by Haaretz.

The order, which allows Israel to prevent prisoners from meeting with a lawyer for up to 180 days, was extended for an additional three months.

Mosab Abu Toha, a Palestinian poet from Gaza, published a story in The New Yorker about what it was like to go through Israeli detention as he attempted to leave Gaza in November.