RAMALLAH, Monday, May 20, 2019 (WAFA) – Two Palestinians from the south of the West Bank held in administrative detention in Israel have been on hunger for 49 days to protest their indefinite detention, the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) said today.
It said Odeh Hroub and Hasan Awawi are having serious health deterioration as a result of their long strike.
The PPS said the Israel Prison Service is ignoring the two prisoners and stalling regarding their demands in order to get them to end their strike.
Hroub, 32, is from Deir Samet village near Hebron and a father of 10. He has been in detention since December 2018. Awawi, 35, is from Hebron and a father of three. He has been in detention since 15 January and had previously served several years in Israeli prisons for resisting its occupation.
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