Nine Palestinian prisoners remain on hunger strike against administrative detention 24 Aug 2021
Nine Palestinian prisoners in Israeli detention currently remain on hunger strike in protest of their unfair administrative detention without a charge or trial, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS).
PPS said the longest hunger-striker of the nine prisoners is prisoner "Salem Ziadat", 40 years old, who has been on hunger strike for 42 days in protest of his detention without a charge or trial.
The other prisoners are "Mujahed Hamed" (40 days),
"Kayed Fasfous" (39 days),
"Meqdad Qawasmeh" (32 days),
"Ahmad Hamamreh" (23 days),
"Akram Fasfous" (18 days),
"Alaa Aaraj" (15 days),
"Hesham Abu Hawwash" (6 days),
and "Omar Jaabari" (5 days).
Some of the hunger-striking prisoners are experiencing difficult health conditions exacerbated by the Israeli authorities’ failure to heed their demands, said the PPS.
Currently, Israel is holding some 550 Palestinians in administrative detention, deemed illegal by international law, most of them former prisoners who spent years in prison for their resistance of the Israeli occupation.
Israeli occupation authorities have renewed detention orders for 70 per cent of the Palestinian administrative detainees held in Israeli jails. August 9th 2021
In a statement, the centre said that the Israeli occupation uses adminstritive detention to keep Palestinian prisoners in jail for the longest possible period without charge, claiming there are secret files against them.
Israel, according to the centre, holds mock trials based on recommendations by the Israeli intelligence.
The Centre said that Israel renewed the administrative detentions of 182 prisoners twice, 110 three times, 63 four times and 13 five times.
It noted that there are 153 Palestinians serving their first term in administrative detention; the majority are former prisoners.
