Israeli court nixes hunger strikers' plea JERUSALEM, May 7 (UPI) -- Israel's High Court of Justice Monday ruled against hunger-striking Palestinians trying to win release from administrative detention. Terror suspects Bilal Diab and Thaer Halahleh began their hunger strike nearly 2 1/2 months ago to protest being detained without being charged. They are among hundreds of Palestinian inmates refusing to eat. In a unanimous decision, the justices said they would not intervene in the military order keeping the suspects incarcerated. Justice Elyakim Rubinstein said, however, that administrative detentions should be shorter and criticized authorities for not fully interrogating the prisoners on issues leading to their arrests, The Jerusalem Post reported. Halahleh has been held since June 28, 2010. Diab, who is hospitalized for refusing fluids, has been held since Aug. 16. Military officials extended their detentions in February. The justices also refused to release evidence on which the detentions are based because "exposure of it could harm its sources as well as its means of attainment," Haaretz reported. "Administrative detention is an aberration in the judicial field, and thus, no one can deny, must be used as little as possible, even if we don't remember that it's used in the world at large, and mainly because we do not forget that Israel regularly fights terror and those who seek to harm it from many directions," they said, adding, "The state should not have to apologize for securing its own safety." Last week, Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch reportedly urged a reduction in the use of administrative detention during a special meeting called to discuss the hunger strikes, Haaretz reported.