Palestinian prisoner Randa al-Shahatit on Monday started an open-ended hunger strike in protest at being held in an isolated cell in Israeli jails.
The detainee’s husband Youssef Abu Sabha said his wife was arrested by the Israeli occupation forces on Friday evening at a military checkpoint pitched near al-Fawar refugee camp in southern al-Khalil before she was transferred late on Sunday to an isolated cell in the HaSharon jail following intensive questioning.
The occupation authorities claimed prisoner Shahatit violated the house arrest at her home in al-Khalil’s southern town of Yatta.
A hearing by the Ofer court on Monday endorsed an earlier ruling cancelling all earlier verdicts issued against the detainee following her arrest in August.
However the judge ruled for keeping her in custody for violating the conditions of her release following the 2011 Wafa al-Ahrar deal.
Her husband said the occupation authorities further turned down Shahatit’s appeals to transfer her to a prison room with other Palestinian female inmates and locked her up in a solitary cell which made her declare an open-ended hunger strike.
At least 50 female Palestinian detainees including 13 minors are currently held in Israeli lock-ups.
