Palestinian prisoner Naser Arar 38 has been on an open-ended hunger strike for the seventh day to protest visit-bans slapped by the Israeli prison authorities.
The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said in a Monday statement that prisoner Arar from Ramallah initiated his hunger strike some seven days ago to urge the Israeli prison authorities to allow him to meet his mother and his 17-year-old son himself imprisoned since July.
The hunger strike has also been demanding to be transferred to Nafha jail.
Arar a father of three sons has been locked up in Israeli dungeons since 2005 serving a lifelong incarceration.
