Days of Palestine – Ramallah
Seven Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons have continued on Friday their hunger strike to protest their detention without trial.
The longest hunger-striker of the seven prisoners is prisoner Kayed Fasfous, who has been on hunger strike for 93 days in protest at his detention without a charge or trial, followed by Muqdad Qawasmeh (86 days), Alaa Aaraj (69 days), Shadi Abu Akar (60 days), Ayyad al-Harimi (23), and Khalil Abu Aram Mudareb (6).
The hunger strikers suffer different health problems, including extreme fatigue, severe weight loss, and sharp pains all over their bodies.
Earlier Thursday, an Israeli court froze the administrative detention of Palestinian hunger striker Kayed al-Fasfous but he refused to end his strike until ending his detention and releasing him immediately.
The Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees said on Thursday that Fasfous has been on hunger strike for 93 days and is currently held in the Israeli Barzilai hospital.
Israel’s widely condemned policy of administrative detention allows the detention of Palestinians without charge or trial for renewable intervals usually ranging between three and six months based on undisclosed evidence that even a detainee’s lawyer is barred from viewing.
Currently, Israel is holding over 500 Palestinians in administrative detention, deemed illegal by international law, most of them former prisoners who spent years in prison for their resistance of the Israeli occupation.
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