RAMALLAH, Wednesday, December 4, 2019 (WAFA) - The Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs Commission said that the Israeli supreme court issued a decision to freeze the administrative detention of prisoner Musab al-Hindi, who has been hunger-striking for over two consecutive months in protest against his detention without charge or trial.

The commission said in statement that this decision came following severe deterioration on al-Hindi’s health. Al-hindi was rushed yesterday to the Israeli Kaplan hospital after his health condition deteriorated, especially that has stopped drinking water.

Al-Hindi, 29, a resident of the Nablus-district village of Tell, was detained in last September, and has been on hunger strike for 70 days in a row in protest of his administrative detention. He went on a hunger strike for 35 consecutive days earlier this years, forcing the Israeli Prison Service (IPS) to suspend his previous period of administrative detention and release him in last September before being re-detained.

T.R.