The Israel Defense Forces keeps Palestinian detainees in shipping containers while they wait for their hearing in the West Bank military court, the human rights organization Yesh Din says. An Israel Prisons Service officer last week showed Yesh Din representatives two shipping containers at the military court in Salem in the northern West Bank, where prisoners awaiting remand hearings were being held. The prisoners said this was the usual practice. On another visit to the site, Border Police officers told Yesh Din the practice was very rare. An IDF spokesman's representative would not allow the containers to be photographed.
