RAMALLAH, Sunday, December 8, 2019 (WAFA) – Prisoner Musab al-Hindi, who has been hunger-striking for 75 consecutive days in protest against his detention without charge or trial, suspended today his open-ended hunger strike after reaching an agreement with the Israeli authorities to Limit his administrative detention to another four months following the current one, after which he will be released.

Al-Hindi launched an open-ended hunger strike in protest of being placed under administrative detention, a widely-condemned policy that allows Israel to detain Palestinians without charge or trial for renewable intervals usually ranging between three and six months based on undisclosed evidence that even a detainee’s lawyer is barred from viewing.

Al-Hindi, 29, a resident of the Nablus-district village of Tell, was re-detained early September of this year and has been on hunger strike for 75 days in a row in protest of his administrative detention. Last year he went on a hunger strike for 35 consecutive days, forcing the Israeli Prison Service (IPS) to suspend his previous period of administrative detention and release him early September 2018, before being re-detained this year.

T.R.