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4 detainees continue their hunger strike in the occupation prisons

Four detainees in Israeli occupation prisons continue their hunger strike, refusing to be arrested, including three administrators.

The striking detainees are: Kayed Al-Fafsous from Dura in Hebron (34 years old). He has been on strike for 31 days and has been detained since May 2. He is a former prisoner who spent about 7 years in occupation prisons. He went on a hunger strike at the end of May and the beginning of last June. For 9 days, knowing that he is married and the father of a daughter. He also went on strike in 2021 against his administrative detention, which lasted for 131 days, and in 2019, while he is detained in Negev cells.

Prisoner Sultan Khallouf (42 years old) from the town of Burqin, near Jenin, has been on strike for 31 days, since the moment of his arrest at the beginning of last month. An administrative detention order was issued against him for a period of four months, knowing that he is a former prisoner who spent years in the occupation prisons and went on a hunger strike. The year 2019 lasted 67 days, in rejection of his administrative detention. The occupation continues to detain him in the cells of Al-Jalama detention center.

Prisoner Abdul Rahman Iyad Baraqa (24 years old) from Aqabat Jabr camp in Jericho has also continued his strike for 24 days. He has been detained since April 30, and is being held in “Raymond” Prison, and prisoner Maher Al-Akhras (52 years old) from the town of Silat Al-Dhahr in Jenin since 11 days. He is a former prisoner who spent five years in the occupation prisons, the last of which was in 2020, during which he embarked on an open hunger strike in rejection of his administrative detention, which lasted for 103 days. He is married and a father of six children, knowing that he is detained in the cells of “Al-Jalama” detention center.

It is noteworthy that since 2011, the number of individual strikes has exceeded 440, most of which are against administrative detention.

It is noteworthy that the number of administrative detainees in the occupation prisons reached more than 1,200 detainees, and this percentage is the highest since the years of the Al-Aqsa Intifada

Source: Maan News Agency