Thirteen Palestinian prisoners are still on a hunger strike in Israeli jails, demanding an end to their administrative detention, a practice that allows Israel to detain them without charge or trial.
The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said that four of the hunger strikers have been fasting for 14 days, two for 10 days, one for six days, and six for three days. They are protesting against their arbitrary and indefinite detention, which violates their basic human rights.
The PLO Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs urged the international community to intervene and stop the Israeli crime of administrative detention, which contradicts all international laws and norms. The Commission called for the formation of an international human rights committee that would visit the Israeli prisons and investigate the conditions of the administrative detainees.
According to B’Tselem, an Israeli human rights group, the Israeli occupation was holding 1,017 people in administrative detention as of March 2023, the highest number since April 2003. Most of them have been incarcerated for less than a year, but some have been detained for more than two years without any charges or trials.
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