Palestinian prisoners Saddam Awad 28 and Abbas Abu Alia 21 on Sunday declared an open hunger strike in protest at their administrative detention in Israeli jails.
According to the Palestinian Prisoner Society Saddam Awad had previously spent about seven years in Israeli jails.
Awad was released in the 2011 Wafa al-Ahrar prisoner swap deal but re-detained later for four years. He has been held in administrative detention since April 2018.
Abbas Abu Alia has been administratively detained in Ofer prison for 14 months and he has newly received a four-month detention order.
