50 Palestinian prisoners on Monday continued their open-ended hunger strike in Israeli jails in protest at the Israeli policy of administrative detention.
20 Palestinian detainees on Sunday joined the thirty administrative detainees who have been on hunger strike for the 16th day in a row supporting them and protesting at their continued detention.
“The thirty Palestinian prisoners are suffering dramatic weight loss and joint pain in addition to vitamin deficiency and dizziness” spokesperson of the Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs Authority Hassan Abd Rabbo said in a press statement.
Around 780 administrative detainees including 6 minors and two women are being held in Israeli jails mostly in Negev and Ofer prisons.
Administrative detention which is a crime against international law is incarceration without trial or charge and is widely used by Israel against the Palestinians solely at the pretext that a person plans to commit a future offense.
