itself [as per Article 76] is based on the fundamental principle forbidding deportations laid down in Article 49.”230 Israeli Policies and Practices Despite these unequivocal legal provisions, Israeli occupying forces systematically transfer Palestinian detainees from inside the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, to locations inside of Israel. Of the seventeen prisons Palestinians are taken to upon arrest, only one of them is located inside the oPt; Ofer Prison. In contradiction to the circumstances permitted in Article 49, it cannot be reasonably contended that material reasons exist which render the imprisonment of Palestinians inside the West Bank an impossibility. To the contrary, Israel’s ability to detain Palestinian prisoners inside the West Bank is one clearly demonstrated by the presence and use of Ofer Prison, for instance, for this precise purpose. This systematic and illegal transfer of Palestinian prisoners and detainees from the occupied territory also carries with it a human impact; the consequence is that Palestinian relatives of prisoners and detainees who would therefore require a permit to enter Israel are regularly denied family visitation permits, based on ‘security grounds’. Based on accounts of family members, these permits are systematically denied for male family members between the age of 16 and 35.231 Overall, the ongoing deportation of Palestinian detainees presents not just significant human implications, but also operates as part of a wider Israeli disregard for international law which threatens to erode the relevance of international law generally. Israel commonly uses threats of deportation during interrogation as a form of pressure in order to coerce Palestinian detainees into providing a confession. Detainees have reported being threatened with forcible transfer to the Gaza Strip if they did not confess to a crime. Forcible transfer to the Gaza Strip is also used by Israeli forces as a condition of release. Iyad Abu Fannoun, from Battir village in Bethlehem, was arrested on 24 April 2012, by Article 186 of Military Order 1651, after having been released under the 2011 prisoner exchange deal, following eight years in Israeli prisons.232 He was forcibly transferred on 4 July 2013 to the Gaza Strip after agreeing to a deal for release that stipulated 230 ICRC, Commentary on Article 76 of Fourth Geneva Convention, 1958. Available at: https://www.icrc. org/applic/ihl/ihl.nsf/1a13044f3bbb5b8ec12563fb0066f226/8b92ce0a4577615ac12563cd0042cf18 231 Addameer, Restrictions On Family Visits, January 2016. Available at: http://www.addameer.org/key_ issues/family_visit 232 BADIL & Addameer, Deportation As Policy: Palestinian Prisoners & Detainees In Israeli Detention, 17 April 2016. Available at: http://www.addameer.org/sites/default/files/publications/addameer_-_ badil_factsheet_17_april_2016.pdf 63