Nine Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in protest against detention by Zionist entity

Nine Palestinian inmates have gone on hunger strike in Zionist regime prisons to protest against the Tel Aviv regime’s so-called policy of administrative detention.

The Palestinian Commission of Detainees’ and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs said in a statement on Sunday that the nine prisoners have been on hunger strike for the fifth consecutive day in protest at their indefinite, unfair and unexplained imprisonment at the hands of the illegal entity, Palestine’s official Wafa news agency reported.

The commission further called on international human rights organizations as well as local humanitarian institutions to take immediate action to put an end to the Israeli regime maltreatment of the hunger-striking detainees, including solitary confinement.

Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners are held under the so-called “administrative detention”, in which Israel keeps Palestinians illegally up to six months, a period which can be extended an infinite number of times. Women and minors are among those detainees.

Palestinian have continuously resorted to open-ended hunger strikes in an attempt to express their outrage at the detention. Palestinians hold Israeli authorities fully responsible for any deterioration of the circumstances in jails.

More than 7,000 Palestinians are currently held illegally in some 17 Israeli regime jails, with dozens of them serving multiple life sentences.

Some Palestinians have been held illegally for up to 11 years.