RAMALLAH, Monday, June 26, 2023 (WAFA) - Four Palestinian administrative detainees held in Israeli prisons have been on hunger strike for nine days in protest against their detention without charge or trial, today said the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS).
It said Anas Ibrahim Shadid, 26, Mahmoud Abdel Halim Talahma, 32, Abdullah Mohammad Abido, 36, and Mohammad Ahmad Dandis, 25, are all from the Hebron governorate in the south of the occupied West Bank and are held at Ofer military camp and prison, near Ramallah, for resisting the Israeli occupation
The PPS said in a statement that Shadid had been arrested three times previously, all administratively, and he spent a total of three years in prison. During these arrests, he carried out two hunger strikes, the first lasting 90 days and was in 2016, and the second for 25 days, noting that he has been detained since March 22, 2023, and was slammed with an administrative detention order for six months. During this period, his lawyer filed an appeal against his administrative detention order, but the court rejected it.
Talahma is a lawyer and a former prisoner who spent two and a half years in the occupation prisons during which he was subjected more than once to interrogation. He is married and a father of two children, and he has been detained since March 22, 2023, and slammed with a six-month administrative detention order. During this period his lawyer appealed his administrative detention order, but it was rejected.
Abido is a former prisoner who spent a total of five and a half years in occupation prisons, most of which were under administrative detention. The occupation rearrested him in May 2023 and placed him under administrative detention for four months. He is married and the father of five children.
Dandis was detained on March 23, 2023, his first arrest, and was slammed with six-month administrative detention.
The hunger strike of the four detainees comes as Israel escalates this policy as the number of administrative detainees, according to the latest data, reached 1083, including 17 minors and three women, said the PPS.
The latest Palestinian hunger-striking detainee, Khader Adnan, 44, died in prison on May 2 of this year after more almost three months of hunger strike also in protest against his detention without charge or trial.
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