Amid growing fears over their lives five Palestinian prisoners have been on open-ended hunger strike for different periods in protest at their detention administratively with no indictments or trials.
Prisoner Kayed al-Fasfous from Dura town in al-Khalil is considered the longest hunger striker as he has been on hunger strike for 123 days.
The other hunger-striking administrative detainees are Alaa al-Araj Hisham Abu Hawash Ayyad al- Harimi and Louay al-Ashqar. They have been on hunger strike for 99 90 53 and 35 days respectively.
Most of the hunger strikers especially Fasfous suffer from life-threatening health issues due to their protracted hunger strike according to the Palestinian Commission of Detainees’ and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs.
Israeli doctors recently told hunger-striking prisoner Kayed al-Fasfous that he was close to sudden death at any moment.
Asra Media Office quoted the hunger striker’s brother as saying that doctors talked about the presence of clots in Fasfous’s blood that could lead to his death.
