Four Palestinian prisoners have gone on an open-ended hunger strike against Israel’s administrative detention.
In a statement released on Monday, the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) said the inmates are from the al-Khalil governorate in the south of the occupied West Bank. They are imprisoned at Offer military camp and prison, near Ramallah.
The PPS said Anas Ibrahim Shadid, 26, Mahmoud Abdel Halim Talahma, 32, Abdullah Mohammad Abilo, 36, and Mohammad Ahmad Dandi’s, 25, began refusing food nine days ago in protest against their detention without charge or trial.
Shadid had gone on hunger strike twice after previous arrests, including a 90-day strike in 2016.
Talahma, detained since March 22, is a lawyer and former prisoner who spent two and a half years in Israeli prisons.
Abdo is a former prisoner who spent a total of five and a half years behind Israeli bars.
And Dandi’s was detained on March 23. He has to be imprisoned for six months under administrative detention.
Israel is currently holding over 1080 Palestinian prisoners, including 17 minors and three women, without charge or trial, according to the PPS.
The latest Palestinian hunger-striking detainee, Khader Adnan, 44, died in prison on May 2, after almost three months of hunger strike.
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