34-year-old Palestinian detainee Youssef al-Keisi started an open-ended hunger strike in an Israeli jail in protest at a renewed administrative term with neither charge nor trial.
A PIC news correspondent quoted al-Keisi’s family as stating that the detainee announced his hunger strike after the Israeli prison authorities renewed his administrative sentence for the second consecutive time without charge or trial.
Al-Keisi was re-arrested by the Israeli occupation forces on September 19 2016 from his home in al-Khalil’s western town of Idna a couple of months after he had been released from an Israeli jail. He was transferred to the Ofer military lock-up where he had been sentenced administratively to two consecutive six-month terms.
The detainee is the father of four children and a prominent Islamic Jihad leader.
