Ramallah, MINA – A Palestinian non-governmental organization said that around 1,300 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons were on a one-day hunger strike.
According to the organization, the hunger strike was a form of solidarity with the Palestinian prisoner, Kayed Al-Fasfous, as quoted by Anadolu Agency on Wednesday.
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society said in a statement that 1,300 Palestinian prisoners held under Israeli administrative detention began a hunger strike to voice their solidarity with Al-Fasfous, who has been on hunger strike for 63 days.
The administrative detention policy allows Israeli authorities to extend the detention of Palestinian prisoners indefinitely without charge or trial.
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According to the NGO’s statement, al-Fasfous has entered a serious health situation after more than 60 days of hunger strike to protest his administrative detention.
Al-Fasfous, 34, from the city of Dura, southwest of Hebron, was detained by Israeli forces in May, and placed under a policy of administrative detention without charge or trial, prompting him to go on hunger strike against his detention. (T/RE1/P2)
Mi’raj News Agency (MINA)
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