Islam Times - Palestinians in West Bank demand release of prisoners

Islam Times - Palestinians have held a demonstration in the occupied West Bank to demand the release of prisoners held in Israeli jails.

The demonstration was held in the city of Ramallah on Saturday.

Meanwhile, an Israel Prison Service spokesperson said Saturday that 10 Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike were transferred to a prison clinic for medical care.

The hospitalized Palestinians are among 1,500 to 2,500 prisoners who began an open-ended hunger strike on April 17 in protest against the administrative detention and solitary confinement exercised by the Tel Aviv regime, and to demand the reinstatement of family visits from the Gaza Strip.

April 17 marks the Palestinian Prisoners Day.

According to the Israeli group of Physicians for Human Rights, the health condition of Bilal Diab and Thaer Halahla, accused by Israeli authorities of causing security offences and placed in administrative detention, has seriously deteriorated and they are in danger of death.

Bilal has “only drinking water” and he is in danger of “cardiac arrest,” while Thaer might have “an infection in his lung,” the group said on May 3.

The administrative detention, often implemented by the Israeli regime against the Palestinian population, is a sort of imprisonment without trial or charge, allowing regime forces to make detentions without formal charges for up to six months. However, the detention order can be renewed for indefinite periods of time.