61-year-old Palestinian detainee Rizq al-Rajoub has announced his decision to start an open-ended hunger strike to protest an Israeli court rule to deport him to Sudan.
According to a Monday statement by the Prisoners’ and Ex-Prisoners’ Commission Rajoub a native of al-Khalil’s town of Dura in the southern occupied West Bank started the hunger strike after the Israeli Ofer court ruled that he be deported to Sudan.
Al-Rajoub vowed to keep up his strike until the Israeli prison authorities either release him or file a list of indictments against him.
The Prisoners’ Commission said the Israeli occupation forces arrested al-Rajoub on November 27 2017 and seized a car of his own four months after they had seized another two of his cars.
Prisoner al-Rajoub had been locked up for a total of 23 years in Israeli jails including 10 years in administrative detention with neither charge nor trial.
