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Six Palestinian prisoners still on hunger strike to protest against their illegal detention

Mona Kandil

Press TV, Ramallah

The hunger strike of six Palestinian prisoners who have refused to eat for days has once again brought the plight of Palestinian prisoners to attention. The six are on hunger strike to protest the illegal Israeli policy of administrative detention, demanding that the occupying regime either release them or prosecute them.

In solidarity with the hunger-striking prisoners, Palestinians including prisoners' families and relatives have protested outside the building of the international committee of the Red Cross in Ramallah.

Administrative detention is illegal; however, it is a tactic that allows Israeli authorities to put Palestinians behind bars indefinitely without charge or trial, claiming they were arrested based on secret reports which are inaccessible to prisoners themselves and their lawyers.

Today Israel holds 4600 Palestinian prisoners in its jails, 520 of them are under illegal administrative detention.

Despite repeated warnings about the hunger strikers' deteriorating health conditions, Israel has always been defiant in dealing with their legal demands to make sure that no more prisoner follows the same path in the future. Israel ends the administrative detention only when hunger-striking prisoners are on the verge of death.


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