Agencies-Gaza post
Two Palestinian inmates on hunger strike rejecting administrative detention
Two Palestinian administrative inmates in Israeli jails currently stay on hunger strike for 52 and 18 days in a row to reject their unjust administrative arrest without a charge or trial, according to the Detainees Affairs Commission.
Khalil Awawdeh, 40, from the Idna village, in the southern West Bank Hebron district, has been on a hunger strike for 52 days against his long administrative imprisonment without indictment or trial.
Local sources reported that he is suffering from headaches, fatigue, pain in the joints, irregular heartbeats, frequent vomiting, and significant loss of weight after 52 days of hunger strike.
The second inmate, Ra’ed Rayyan, 27, from the Bayt Duqu village in the West Bank region of Jerusalem, has been on hunger strike for 18 calling for the termination of his custody without indictment or trial.
Israel’s widely denounced procedure of administrative custody permits the arrest of Palestinians without charge or trial for renewable breaks usually varying between three and six months established on unknown proof that even a prisoner’s lawyer is blocked from considering.
Currently, Israeli forces are holding more than 500 Palestinians in administrative arrest, believed illegal by international law, most of them former inmates who spent years in prison for their opposition to the Israeli occupation.
