30 Palestinian prisoners from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) started an open-ended hunger strike on Sunday in protest at their administrative detention.
In a statement PFLP described the hunger strike as a new step taken by administrative detainees to pressure Israeli jailers to release them pointing out that more administrative detainees would join the hunger strike gradually in the coming days.
PFLP said that the Israeli prison service tried to communicate with the detainees in order to dissuade them from their step but they insisted on going on hunger strike to demand their release adding that “the picture would be much clearer tomorrow.”
In early January about 500 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.
