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News ID: 83341
Publish Date : 29 September 2020 - 21:38

Palestinian Prisoner Launches Hunger Strike

WEST BANK (Dispatches) – Palestinian prisoner Mohamed Abul Asal has launched an open-ended hunger strike in protest against his continued illegal detention in Zionist regime’s prisons.
Abul Asal, a resident from Aqabat Jabr refugee camp, southwest of Ariha, took the action after Zionist troops decided to place him under so-called administrative detention for three months on the day he was due to be released having served a ten-month term.
Administrative detention, a procedure employed by the occupying regime to jail indefinitely without trial and without charges and used routinely against Palestinians, has been condemned by the UN and is in direct violation of Article 14 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
Asal was kidnapped last year after Zionist troops raided his home. He had previously been detained on numerous occasions.
Meanwhile, a military court run by the occupying regime sentenced a Palestinian minor from Jenin in the occupied West Bank to five years in prison.
Samer Abdul-Karim Awais is 17 years and Zionist troops arrested him more than a year ago.
He has been interrogated in harsh circumstances at the Petah Tikva detention center over the past few months. The teenager is also said to have been tortured.
Awais’s father is already serving life imprisonment. The young Palestinian has been denied a visit to his parent.
His brother Hassan was also arrested in 2004. Hassan is serving a double life sentence in addition to another 20 years.
Samer had an uncle who was killed in an operation by Israeli helicopters in the Amari refugee camp in 2002.
Thousands of men, as well as women and children, are held indefinitely and under horrendous conditions in detention centers across the occupied territories without charge, the possibility to appeal or knowing why they are being detained.
Last month, a report prepared by rights groups revealed that the Zionist regime issued 98 administrative detention orders, including 33 new and 65 renewed orders, in July alone.
The rights groups stated that the number of Palestinian prisoners inside the occupying regime’s jails reached 4,500 in July, including 41 women, 160 children and 360 under administrative detention.