RAMALLAH, August 18, 2016 (WAFA) – The detainees and ex-detainees committee said that ten Palestinians have joined another 19 prisoner in the hunger strike to protest administrative detention in Ofer Prison.
The committee said in a press release that the prisoners have resorted to hunger strike due to the inhumane and harsh conditions they are living under in Israeli prisoners.
It said, suffering and systematic and cruelty dictated by the far right Israeli government are what prisoners have to endure on daily basis.
The committee’s lawyer Loay Akka visited the prison on Wednesday and met with journalist Omar Nazzal who has been hunger striking for 25 days in solidarity with prisoner Bilal Kayed and several others.
Nazzal told the lawyer, “The prison administration greets us every day with a different punitive approach; the latest of which was confiscating our mattresses and bringing us less comfortable ones. They denied us the use of shampoo, cleaning material and razors and conduct late night inspections, which create emotional and physical pressure.
Akka also visited prisoner Thaer Ta’amra who is suffering from a very critical health condition, since his car collided with an Israeli police vehicle on Eid el Futr after Ramadan. He is suffering from neurological complications and is receiving insufficient medical care.
The laywer added that three boys are currently being detained at ofer prison under administrative detention, without charge or trial. The three boys were identified as Ahmad Nimr, Loay Nairokh and Hamza Silwadi, all under 18.
In Etzion prison, Palestinian detainees were subjected to physical assault and electric shocks during their arrests from their homes and on checkpoints.
The Palestinian Prisoner’s Club lawyer Jacqueline Fararja heard the testimony of a number of Palestinian detainees including 16-year-old Ahmad Yusri Maswada from Herbon. She said Maswada was beaten with Israeli soldiers rifles’ butts and he was electrified in the head and left shoulder after blindfolding him and shoving him into the jeep.
She added that 19-year-old Rashed Salibi, Saher Ghatasha, 38, Abdullah Rajabi, 31, Hazem Hadosh, 20, from Hebron and Muhammad Sabah, 25, from Bethlehem were severely beaten during their arrest.
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