More Palestinian Prisoners Join Hunger Strike

Date: 13 August 2019 - 21:57

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WEST BANK (Dispatches) – Thirty Palestinians in the Zionist regime’s jails have joined a hunger strike in solidarity with six detainees who have themselves been refusing to eat or drink to protest their illegal detention without charge or trial.
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine said on Monday that another group comprising 30 prisoners had joined the open-ended hunger strike to protest against the practice of so-called administrative detention.
The prisoners reject the intake of any food or water to step up pressure on the occupying regime’s authorities to meet the demands of the six detainees who have been on hunger strike, particularly Huthaifa Halabiya, whose health condition is deteriorating.
The latest group brings to 49 the number of prisoners who have joined the protest action in solidarity with the six detainees.
Also on Monday, Zionist troops arrested a handicapped man in a raid on his home in Isawiya in the occupied al-Quds.
The man, Jarrah Mohmmed Ali Nasser, in his 40s, has been suffering from hemiplegia since birth.
It was unclear why he was arrested.
More than 7,000 Palestinians are reportedly held in the regime’s jails. Hundreds of them have apparently been incarcerated under the practice of "administrative detention,” a policy under which Palestinian inmates are kept in the regime’s detention centers without trial or charge.
Some Palestinian prisoners have been held in administrative detention for up to 11 years.
Palestinian inmates regularly stage hunger strike in protest at the administrative detention policy and harsh conditions in the jails.
Over a dozen Palestinian lawmakers and nearly 20 journalists are also held in the regime’s detention centers, several of them under the administrative detention policy.
In 2015, the Zionist regime approved a law that authorizes force-feeding Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike, a practice rejected by the United Nations as a violation of human rights.