PALESTINE
Tue 05 Sep 2023 1:58 pm - Jerusalem Time
4 detainees continue their hunger strike
Today, Monday, four detainees in the Israeli occupation prisons continue their open hunger strike, in refusal of their detention, including three administrators.
The detainees on strike are: Kayed Al-Fasfous from Dura in Hebron (34 years old), he has been on strike for 33 days, and he has been detained since May 2. He is a former prisoner who spent about 7 years in the occupation prisons. He went on a hunger strike at the end of May and the beginning of last June for a period of time. 9 days, knowing that he is married and has a daughter.
He also went on strike in 2021 against his administrative detention, which lasted for 131 days, and he is being held in the cells of the Negev.
The prisoner Sultan Khalouf (42 years) from the town of Burqin has been on strike for 33 days, since the moment of his arrest early last month, and an administrative detention order has been issued against him for a period of four months, noting that he is a former prisoner who spent years in the occupation prisons, and went on a hunger strike in 2019. He continued for 67 days, refusing his administrative detention, and the occupation continues to detain him in the cells of Al-Jalama Detention Center.
The administrative prisoner, Abd al-Rahman Iyad Baraka (24 years), from Aqabat Jabr camp in Jericho, has been on strike for 26 days. He has been detained since April 30 and is being held in Raymond prison.
The prisoner, Maher al-Akhras, 52, from the town of Silat al-Dhahr in Jenin, has been on strike for 13 days. He is a former prisoner who spent five years in the occupation prisons, the last of which was in 2020, during which he embarked on an open hunger strike in rejection of his administrative detention, which lasted for 103 days. He is married and a father of six. Sons, noting that he is being held in the cells of "Al-Jalama" detention center.
It is noteworthy that since 2011, the number of individual strikes has exceeded 440, most of which are against administrative detention, while the number of administrative detainees in the occupation prisons has reached more than 1,200, and this percentage is the highest in years.
Share your opinion
4 detainees continue their hunger strike