Protesting against the illegal Israeli policy of administrative detention, four Palestinian detainees have been on an open hunger strike for days, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) reported Saturday, September 2, 2023.
The PPS said four Palestinian administrative detainees have been on hunger strike in protest of administrative detention the Israeli occupation issues without any charge and tails, claiming that there are secret files that no one is allowed to know.
The four detainees are Kayed Fasfous, Sultan Khalouf, Abdul Rahman Baraka, and Maher al-Akhras, who are serving different sentences in Israeli occupation prisons.
Palestinian detainees Kayed Al-Fasfous, 34, from the city of Dura, and Sultan Khalouf have been on hunger strike for the 31st day in a row, the society added.
Al-Fasfous has been detained since May 2, 2023. Al-Fasfous is an ex-detainee who spent over 7 years in Israeli prisons.
In 2021, Al-Fasfous went on an open-ended hunger strike that lasted 131 days in protest of his administrative detention. It’s reported that all of his siblings were detained and he’s married and has a daughter.
Khalouf is also a former prisoner who spent years in Israeli prisons. In 2019, he carried out an open-ended hunger strike that lasted for 67 days in protest against his administrative detention.
Meanwhile, The Palestinian detainee Abdul Rahman Baraka has been on hunger strike for the 24th day in a row.
The Palestinian detainee Maher al-Akhras, 52, from Jenin joined the hunger strike last Wednesday in protest of his detention too.
A flagrant violation
The Israeli occupation has escalated its administrative detention policy against Palestinians as there are about 1300 administrative detainees in Israeli prisons, including minors, women, and the elderly, according to the Palestine Center for Prisoners Studies PCPS.
So far in 2023, the Israeli occupation has issued about 2300 administrative detention orders against Palestinians, most of whom are ex-detainees.
PCPS stressed that the way the Israeli occupation practices administrative detention against Palestinians is a flagrant violation of international law and humanitarian laws and norms.
It uses this type of detention as a collective punishment against the defenceless Palestinian people, the centre said.
Currently, there are nearly 5,000 Palestinian detainees inside Israeli occupation prisons, including 34 Palestinian women, over 170 kids, and 600 sick detainees.
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