Three Palestinian brothers launched an open hunger strike in Israeli jails in protest at the Israeli solitary confinement policy.
The three hunger strikers were identified as Abdul Salam Nidal and Ez Noor al-Din Omar from the village of Beit Amin in the occupied West Bank district of Qalqilia.
Noor al-Din 32 launched his hunger strike last week in protest against his continued detention in solitary confinement in Israel’s Eshel prison for more than three years.
He was arrested in 2003 and sentenced to 55 years imprisonment for being involved in anti-occupation attacks.
Abdul Salam 47 and Nidal 46 then decided to launch a hunger strike in solidarity with their isolated brother.
They both were detained three years ago and sentenced to life and 20 years in prison respectively for attempted kidnap of an Israeli soldier in an effort to exchange him for Noor al-Din.
The PA committee for prisoners’ studies warned of the Israeli racist policies against Palestinian prisoners especially sick isolated and administrative detainees.
