Four Palestinian administrative detainees in Israel continued today in their open-ended hunger strike in protest against their detention without charge or trial. Kayed al-Fasfous, 34, and Sultan Khlouf, 42, have been on hunger strike for 31 days, while Iyad Baraqa, 24, has been on hunger strike for 24 days, and Maher al-Akhras for 11 days. Last month, the PLO Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs urged the international community to break its silence over the Israeli crime of administrative detention, under which Palestinians are imprisoned without charge or trial in violation of all international laws and norms. The Commission demanded "real and tangible action and to form an international human rights committee that will immediately go to the Israeli occupation prisons, examine the crime of administrative detention and observe first hand the suffering of the administrative detainees, who are detained without any charge or trial, and whose life depends on the whim of the Israeli intelligence officers.' 'The immoral and inhumane abuses associated with the use of this policy by the occupying power violates all principles of international law and humanity, and are in real contradiction with the fllowers of democracy and those claiming to be democratic in all of the world, especially the US and Europe,' the statement added. According to figures obtained by Israeli human rights group B'Tselem, in March 2023 Israel was holding 1,017 Palestinians in administrative detention, which is the highest number of administrative detainees since April 2003, when Israel held 1,140 administrative detainees.
Source: Palestine news & Information Agency - WAFA