A 29-year-old Palestinian prisoner Hassan Shokeh announced starting an open hunger strike in protest at issuing a 6-month administrative detention order against him by Israeli Ofer military court.
In a letter addressed to Muhjat al-Quds Foundation Prisoners of Islamic Jihad in Ofer jail said that Israeli Prison Service (IPS) held detained Shokeh in solitary confinement immediately after he started a hunger strike last Wednesday.
Captive Shokeh was repeatedly arrested by Israeli occupation forces for affiliation with the Islamic Jihad Movement. He was released late August and rearrested less than a month later.
