Hunger strike by Palestinian inmates enters 5th day
A hunger strike launched by Palestinian detainees in protest against their dire conditions in Israeli custody has entered its fifth day, with more prisoners expected to join the action.
At least 120 Palestinian prisoners began an open-ended hunger strike on August 5 after Israeli prison officials forcibly moved them from one section to another inside the notorious Nafha jail in the Negev desert located in southern Israel.
According to the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS), the hunger striking detainees are demanding to be returned to their former prison section. They also want family visits, an end to solitary confinement and better jail conditions.
Most of the inmates are political prisoners who have links with the Palestinian Fatah movement that rules the occupied West Bank.
Dozens of other prisoners are also reportedly expected to join the hunger strike on Sunday.
Palestinian inmates said they are seeking to reach an arrangement with the Israel Prison Service, but also threatened to expand their protest if their demands are not met.
Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails are increasingly resorting to hunger strikes to protest both their indefinite detentions with no charges and Tel Aviv’s medical negligence in dealing with ailing inmates.
Israel’s so-called administrative detention is a sort of imprisonment without trial or charge that allows the regime to imprison Palestinians for up to six months. The detention order can be renewed for indefinite periods of time.
According to reports, more than 7,000 Palestinians are incarcerated in 17 Israeli prisons and detention camps, 540 of whom are held under administrative detention.
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