Alwaght – More than a hundred Palestinians held in Israeli prisons went on hunger strike to support fellow inmates already on the strike to protest arbitrary detention.
The Palestinians in several Israeli prisons initiated a hunger strike to express their solidarity with Muhammad and Mahmoud Balboul and Malek al-Qadi, the Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs said in a statement released on Tuesday.
The two are jailed under the controversial administrative detention policy practiced by Tel Aviv to keep Palestinians in prison without trial.
Administrative detention is a sort of imprisonment without trial or charge that allows the Tel Aviv regime to incarcerate Palestinians for up to six months, extendable indefinitely.
The Balboul brothers and Qadi are in deteriorating conditions and need urgent medical aid, the head of the Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs Issa Qaraqe told the Turkish Anadolu News Agency.
"They are suffering from chest pains, muscle cramps, increased body temperature and frequent loss of consciousness," Qaraqe said.
Muhammad Balboul, 25, began refusing food 78 days ago to protest his detention without charge or trial. Mahmoud Balboul, 22, also went on hunger strike three days after his brother.
Malek al-Qadi, who is 19 years old, is now in the 67th day of his hunger strike
Israeli regime is holding more than 7 thousands prisoners, many of them children, in its prison. Inaction of international organizations in face of severe prison conditions and unjustified imprisonment of Palestinians has caused numerous protests around the world.
