20 Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons join 30 others in their hunger strike in solidarity
Occupied Palestine (QNN)- 20 additional Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons joined on Sunday the mass hunger strike launched by 30 administrative detainees demanding an end to Israel’s administrative detention without charge or trial.
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) announced that 20 Palestinian detainees, including Palestinians jailed arbitrarily under administrative detention as well as people serving sentences imposed by Israeli occupation military courts and people awaiting trial, joined on October 9 the mass hunger strike launched on September 25 by 30 administrative detainees demanding an end to Israel’s administrative detention without charge or trial.
The 20 detainees have been held in the Ofer prison and Al-Naqab desert prison.
Currently, there are 50 Palestinian detainees on an open-ended hunger strike inside Israeli occupation prisons, 30 of whom enter their third week of hunger strike.
The first thirty Palestinian detainees who began the hunger strike are listed below:
1.Nidal Abu Aker.
2. Ehab Masoud.
3. Asim Al Kaabi.
4. Ahmed Hajjaj.
5. Thaer Taha.
6. Ramy Fadayel.
7. Lotfi Salah.
8. Salah Hammouri
9. Ghassan Zawahreh.
10. Kanaan Kanaan.
11. Ashraf Abu Aram.
12. Ghassan Karajah.
13. Saleh Abu Alia.
14. Awad Kanaan.
15. Leith Kassaberah.
16. Saleh Al-Jaidi.
17. Basil Mezher.
18. Majdi Al-Khawaja.
19. Jihad Shreiteh.
20. Haitham Siyaj.
21. Mustafa Al-Hasanat.
22. Azmi Shreiteh.
23. Muhammad Abu Ghazi.
24. Ahmed Al-Kharouf.
25. Nasrallah Barghouti.
26. Muhammad Fuqaha.
27. Tamer Al-Hajouj.
28. Raghad Shamroukh.
29. Zaid Qaddoumi.
30. Senar Hamad.
With additional detainees scheduled to join the battle as it continues, the 20 detainees who joined the hunger strike are:
10 in the Ofer prison:
1.Abdel-Razzaq Farraj.
2. Mohammed Wael.
3. Saqr Raqban.
4. Mohammed Farraj.
5. Udai Obayat.
6. Hamza Sweiti (administrative detainee).
7. Basil Daamsa (administrative detainee).
8. Ahmed Adawi (administrative detainee).
9. Mohammed Atallah al-Lahham.
10. Ruwaid al-Hindi.
10 in the Naqab desert prison:
1.Yahya Mohammed Ali Zahran
2.Hassan Ali Ahmad
3.Mohammed al-Jabri (administrative detainee)
4.Ashraf al-Sajdi (administrative detainee)
5.Ahmad Mohammed al-Khatib
6.Shafiq Saabneh
7.Mohammed Saabneh
8.Rani Qawar
9.Ahmed Abdel-Karim
10.Fadi Abdullah Khaizaran
Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association said the collective hunger strike comes in response to the Israeli occupation authorities’ broad escalation of administrative detention targeting Palestinian human rights defenders, students, politicians, and former prisoners.
It said this “highlights the Israeli occupation authorities’ increased reliance on administrative detention, a procedure in which detainees are held without charge or trial based on "secret information" for an indefinite time.”
The Palestinian hunger-striking detainees demand “an end to the policy of administrative detention as an arbitrary, coercive, and punitive measure of torture against hundreds of Palestinians, including women, children, the elderly, and civil society activists.”
There are currently approximately 800 Palestinian prisoners jailed under administrative detention orders out of a total of approximately 4,650 total Palestinian prisoners in occupation jails, including at least 6 minors and two women.
