Hundreds of administrative detainees being held by Israeli occupation forces are to begin a hunger strike next week, the head of the Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs has revealed.
In a statement to the Voice of Palestine radio station, Issa Qaraqe said that 500 administrative prisoners are being held in Israeli prisons without charge or trial. They have already undertaken a boycott of the occupation’s prisons, he explained, as a result of the injustice they are facing.
Qaraqe: Administrative prisoners to start hunger strike in June – https://t.co/ZcfB18UdJA #Palestine #StopAD #PalHunger pic.twitter.com/IOAGK9r9JZ
— al whit (@soitiz) May 30, 2018
Administrative detention is the arrest and detention of individuals by the state without charge or trial. It is applicable on a renewable six month term.
Qaraqe expects the occupation authorities to exercise unprecedented repression and isolation to end the strike, and was the case last year when thousands of prisoners joined a hunger strike called for by Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti.
(MEMO, PC, Social Media)
