Two Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails are currently on hunger strike in protest at being held administratively in Israeli jails with neither charge nor trial.
The detainee Akram Fseisi from al-Khalil’s western town of Idna started his hunger strike on Monday in protest at a renewed administrative term issued by the Israeli prison authorities against him with neither charge nor trial.
A PIC news correspondent quoted Fseisi’s family as stating that the detainee announced his hunger strike after the Israeli prison authorities renewed his six-month administrative sentence for the second consecutive time.
Fseisi was re-arrested by the Israeli occupation forces on September 19 2016 and has been held in an isolated cell in the Ofer military lock-up.
The other detainee Rafat Shalash from al-Khalil’s southern town of Beit Awa has also been on a hunger strike for the fifth day running in response at being held administratively in an Israeli jail for the 15th consecutive month.
The detainee’s father Hussein Shalash said his son has been incarcerated in Israeli lock-ups since January 14 2016 without charges and that he had spent a total of seven years in Israeli prisons.
The father appealed to the national and international human rights institutions to work on releasing his son from the Israeli Negev jail before the end of his administrative sentence slated to be terminated on April 14.
At least 7000 Palestinian detainees are locked up in Israeli jails among whom 700 prisoners held administratively with neither charge nor trial.
