Palestinian administrative detainees in Israeli jails to go on open-ended hunger strike

Palestinian prisoners held under Israel’s so-called administrative detention policy, are planning a mass open-ended hunger strike in protest at their unlawful and indefinite imprisonment without trial or charge.

Palestinian inmates will also keep up their boycott of the regime’s courts “as a means of drawing attention to the violation of their rights,” the committee added.

It noted that the detainees’ key demand is for the regime to end its practice of administrative detention, while also seeking to force “Israel to respect its obligations under the international humanitarian and human rights law.”

Under its policy of administrative detention, the occupying regime detains Palestinians without trial or charge for up to six months; a period which can be extended for an indefinite number of times.