Islam Times - Fourteen Palestinian Detainees on Hunger Strike to Protest ‘Administrative Detention’

Fourteen Palestinian Detainees on Hunger Strike to Protest ‘Administrative Detention’

Islam Times - The Palestinian Commission for Detainees and Ex-detainees’ Affairs said fourteen Palestinian inmates are currently on hunger strike in ‘Israeli’ occupation prisons in protest at their indefinite, unfair and unexplained imprisonment at the hands of the Tel Aviv regime.

In a statement released on Sunday, the commission said the fourteen Palestinian prisoners have gone on hunger strike to protest the Tel Aviv regime’s so-called policy of ‘administrative detention,’ which is a sort of imprisonment without trial or charge, Palestine’s Wafa news agency reported.

The commission further called on international human rights organizations and local humanitarian institutions to take immediate action to put an end to the Zionist regime’s maltreatment of the hunger-striking detainees, including solitary confinement.

Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners are held under ‘administrative detention,’ in which the apartheid regime keeps them without charge for up to six months, a period which can be extended an infinite number of times.

Women and minors are among those detainees.

The detention takes place on orders from a Zionist military commander and on the basis of what the occupation regime claims to be a ‘secret’ evidence.

Some prisoners have been held in ‘administrative detention’ for up to 11 years.