A Palestinian rights group said that a decision by Israel to stop issuing administrative detention against illegal settlers accused of attacking Palestinians in the West Bank “puts them above any legal accountability”, Anadolu reports.

The decision at this time “is evidence of the extent of the occupation’s audacity, its disregard, and its arrogance toward the international system and its structures,” Qadoura Fares, the head of the Palestinian Commission of Detainees’ Affairs, said in a statement.

Fares said it “facilitates settlers in committing more crimes against Palestinians and removes some of the formal restrictions, of which administrative detention was part.”