20 Palestinian prisoners joined on Sunday the hunger strike of 30 administrative detainees protesting the Israeli administrative detention policy.
About 15 days ago 30 Palestinian detainees held administratively in Israeli jails staged an open-ended hunger strike to demand their release and an end to such detention policy.
Accordingly the number of the prisoners participating in this hunger strike increased to 50 hunger strikers according to the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS).
The new hunger strikers are administrative detainees detainees on remand and prisoners serving sentences.
Three days ago 900 detainees in Ofer prison refused to take their meals in solidarity with the hunger-striking administrative detainees who started to show signs of fatigue and physical weakness.
In a statement on Saturday PPS said that the administrative detainees were determined to continue their hunger strike adding that other prisoners would join the hunger strike gradually if the Israeli prison service did not respond positively to their demands following the current Jewish holiday.
In early January hundreds of administrative detainees announced a complete boycott of all judicial procedures related to their administrative detention.
The administrative detainees are being held in different Israeli prisons mostly in Negev and Ofer jails.
