Israel is holding 9,300 Palestinians in prisons and detention centres, including around 250 children and 75 women, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society said in a statement. The PPS said that the number includes thousands of Palestinians detained from the Gaza Strip, where Israel has carried out a brutal military assault since October. More than 3,400 of the total number of prisoners are held under ‘administrative detention’ – a procedure that allows Israeli authorities to hold alleged suspected for six months at a time, which can be extended indefinitely. Israel says the procedure allows authori…