WEST BANK (MEMO) – At least 40 Palestinian prisoners from the Islamic Jihad in the Zionist regime’s prisons have started an open-ended hunger strike, Al-Quds Association has announced.
The prisoners started their hunger strike in solidarity with hunger striker Khalil Awawdeh, who had been on hunger strike for 20 days.
On Wednesday, the military court in the Zionist regime’s Ofer Prison renewed Awawdeh’s so-called administrative detention for four months, prompting his fellow prisoners to start their hunger strike the next day.
Awawdeh, 40, from the West Bank city of Al-Khalil, was detained on 27 December, 2021, and was put under ‘administrative detention’.
He went on hunger strike and suspended it after 111 days after he was promised to be released by the occupation authorities.
The hunger striker, a father of four young children, is being incarcerated in an Israeli hospital due to his deteriorating health resulting from the severe repercussions of the hunger strike.