A/HRC/28/45 E. Arbitrary and collective measures in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem 48. During the reporting period, Israel extended some measures already used in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. The authorities significantly increased their use of administrative detention, continued carrying out home demolitions in the context of a discriminatory planning policy, resumed a policy of punitive demolitions and imposed restrictions on Palestinians’ freedom of movement and access to religious sites. While the Israeli authorities had a duty to seek to bring the perpetrators of the June 2014 murders of the three teenagers to justice, the use of measures that violate international human rights law and international humanitarian law has contributed to stoking up resentment amongst the Palestinian population. Administrative and mass arrest and detention 49. The reporting period witnessed a significant increase in the number of Palestinians subjected to administrative detention without charge. According to statistics collected by the Israeli NGO B’tselem from the Israeli Prison Service, 196 Palestinians were being held in administrative detention at the end of May 2014. The figure peaked at 473 in August, according to B’tselem the highest number since April 2009, before falling back to 468 by 30 September. 89 The increased use of the practice by Israel, despite consistent denunciations by the Secretary-General, the Human Rights Committee, the High Commissioner for Human Rights and others, is of concern. 90 50. The increase in administrative detention came in the context of alleged mass arbitrary arrests and detentions, particularly in the Hebron area and in East Jerusalem, as well as other parts of the West Bank. Those mass measures, combined with other collective measures, helped contribute to a pressure cooker environment in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.91 Demolitions, including punitive and mass demolitions 51. In the summer of 2014, the resumption of punitive demolitions of the homes of the suspects in the abduction and murder of the three Israeli teenagers and one other, was another retrograde step. Israel formally ended its policy of punitive demolitions in 2005, although one isolated instance was noted in 2009.92 Those measures, supposedly intended as a deterrent, but entailing multiple violations of international law, only serve to alienate the population, particularly owing to their collective nature and the impact on people innocent of any alleged crime.93 In 2005, an Israeli commission recommended an end to punitive demolitions, reportedly assessing that punitive demolitions were not an effective deterrent and caused damage to Israel by generating hatred and hostility. 94 89 90 91 92 93 94 www.btselem.org/administrative_detention/20141007_spike_in_number_ of_administrative_detainees; www.btselem.org/statistics/detainees_and_prisoners. CCPR/C/ISR/CO/4; www.un.org/sg/statements/index.asp?nid=7751; www.un.org/apps/news/story. asp?NewsID=48092; www.ohchr.org/en/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=14770&LangID=E#sthash.IU1rE HYi.dpuf. A/HRC/28/80/Add.1, paras. 6–22. A/HRC/28/80/Add.1, para. 18; www.hamoked.org//timeline.aspx?pageID=timelinehousedemolitions; www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/idf-panel-recommends-ending-punitive-house-demolitions-forterrorists-families-1.150620. A/HRC/28/80/Add.1, paras. 6–22. www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/idf-panel-recommends-ending-punitive-house-demolitions-for- 15