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A Palestinian commission for prisoners says fourteen Palestinians are currently on hunger strike in Israeli regime prisons in protest at their indefinite, unfair and unexplained illegal imprisonment at the hands of the Tel Aviv regime.
In a statement released on Sunday, the Palestinian Commission of Detainees’ and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs said the fourteen Palestinians have gone on hunger strike to protest against the Tel Aviv regime’s so-called policy of administrative detention, which is a sort of imprisonment without trial or charge, Palestine’s 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 Palestinians are held illegally under “administrative detention”, in which the illegal Zionist entity keeps the detainees without charge for up to six months, a period which can be extended an infinite number of times. Women and minors are among those detainees.
Palestinians and human rights groups say “administrative detention” violates the right to due process since evidence is withheld from Palestinians while they are held for lengthy periods without being charged, tried, or convicted.
Palestinians have continuously resorted to open-ended hunger strikes in an attempt to express their outrage at the detention. Palestinians hold the Zionist regime fully responsible for any deterioration of the circumstances in jails.
More than 7,000 Palestinians are currently held illegally in some 17 Israeli jails, with dozens of them serving multiple life sentences.
