WEST BANK (Dispatches) – The Global Campaign to Return to Palestine has called for a one-day international hunger strike in solidarity with the Palestinian prisoners who have been refusing food to protest the Zionist regime’s illegal so-called administrative detention policy that allows their incarceration for long periods of time without charge or trial.
The campaign, which is an umbrella organization for NGOs supporting the Palestinian cause both in the Arab world and across the globe, issued the call on Monday.
It also asked social media users to tweet an Arabic hashtag, which roughly means “empty bowel battle,” and upload Hungry for Freedom photos.
The campaign further urged people to record shorter than one-minute messages in solidarity with the hunger-striking Palestinian inmates.
At least seven Palestinians have remained on an open-ended hunger strike in the occupying regime’s jails to denounce their indefinite detention based on “secret information” with no trial or indictment.
The prisoners include Kayed Fasfous, Miqdad Qawasmeh, Alaa Aaraj, Hesham Abu Hawwash, Shadi Abu-Akr, Ayyad Hureimi, and Rateb Harebat.
Fasfous and Qawamesh are currently in critical health conditions and at risk of losing their lives.
“The [Zionist] occupation continues its intransigence and refusal to respond to their demand of ending their administrative detention, in an attempt to bring the striking prisoners to a difficult and dangerous health stage,” the Palestinian Prisoners Society said.
More than 7,000 Palestinians are reportedly held in the occupying regime’s detention centers. Hundreds of them have apparently been incarcerated under ‘administrative detention’.
In another development, the Palestinian Hamas resistance movement called on U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration to reconsider its “outrageous pro-Israel stances” and to stop Washington’s blind support for the Zionist regime, after the U.S. voted against a recent UN resolution in favor of Palestinians’ right to self-determination.
Basem Naim, head of the Hamas International Relations Office, said in a statement that the vote attested to the Biden administration’s double standards and spurious allegations that it supports a political solution of the Palestinian issue.
He stated that the measure showed Washington’s hostile positions against Palestinians’ rights to establish an independent Palestinian state on the 1967 borders with East Al-Quds as its capital.