RAMALLAH– In protest against their detention without charge or trial, 30 Palestinian administrative detainees held in the Israeli occupation prisons will go on an open hunger strike tomorrow, Sunday, in rejection of their continued detention, today said Hassan Abed Rabbo, spokesman for the Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs Commission.
He told WAFA that the prisoners decided to go on hunger strike as a protest against the policy of administrative detention and the renewal of their detention, which is done more than once without specifying a time limit for it, especially among the released prisoners.
The administrative detainees sent a message a few days ago in which they asserted that confronting the administrative detention continues and that the practices of the Israel Prison Services “are no longer governed by the security obsession as an actual driver of the occupation, but rather are acts of revenge due to their past.”
Israel has escalated its administrative detention policy against Palestinians as the number of administrative detainees currently exceeded 760, including minors, women, elderly, and sick, noting that 80 percent of the administrative detainees are former prisoners who spent years in the prisons most were administrative detentions.
Source: Palestine News & Information Agency