Prominent Palestinian prisoner Samer al-Issawi and Munther Sunober have been on hunger strike for four days at the Israeli Nafha jail the PA committee for prisoners’ affairs said Friday morning.
Issawi from occupied Jerusalem and Sunober from Nablus were forgoing food to obtain the end of the mistreatment of Palestinian female prisoners and allowing doctors’ visits to Palestinian sick prisoners.
Their demands also include the removal of a security ban on a number of prisoners’ family visits.
Issawi 37 gained global recognition in 2012 when he began a hunger strike to protest being re-detained by Israel after he was freed as part of the 2011 Wafa al-Ahrar Swap deal.
Sunober 40 was sentenced to four life sentences plus 30 years.
