61-year-old Palestinian detainee Rizq al-Rajoub has been going on an open-ended hunger strike for the 20th day in a row to protest an Israeli court rule to deport him to Sudan.
According to the Palestinian human rights network in charge of prisoners’ affairs Anin al-Qaid Rajoub who is a native of al-Khalil’s town of Dura in the southern occupied West Bank said that he will not retract his decision until the Israeli prison authorities either release him or file a list of indictments against him.
The network also stated that the elderly detainee is suffering from hard health conditions. Nevertheless he is held in a dungeon under unhealthy and inhuman conditions. He has several diseases including low blood level and problems in the heart.
Israeli occupation forces arrested al-Rajoub on November 27 2017. He had been locked up for a total of 23 years in Israeli jails including 10 years in administrative detention with neither charge nor trial.
