The Prisoners Club announced on Thursday that five Palestinian detainees started a hunger strike in Israeli jails in support of eight prisoners who continue their open hunger strike rejecting the policy of administrative detention.
The club said that this brings the number of striking prisoners to 13 distributed among the prisons of the Negev Ramon and Ofer.
The club stated that four prisoners suspended their hunger strike as one of them obtained a verdict from the military court in Ofer prison ending his administrative detention on October 13 2021.
Two other prisoners reached an agreement to set a period of their administrative detention.
The Palestinian Commission for Detainees’ and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs reported that the prisoner Muayad al-Khatib suspended his open hunger strike after a serious deterioration in his health condition as he was taken to the Ramon prison clinic.
It explained that Khatib suspended his strike against his administrative detention after a week as he suffered acute gastrointestinal bleeding and began vomiting blood.
