APAwire - APAwire CLIENTS ONLY, Al-Bireh - 27 July 2021. Palestinians take part in a protest in support of prisoners who on hunger strikes in Isareli jails, in the West Bank city of Al-Bireh.
RESTRICTION SUMMARY: APAwire CLIENTS ONLY SHOTLIST: APAwire - APAwire CLIENTS ONLY, Al-Bireh - 27 July 2021. Palestinians take part in a protest in support of prisoners who on hunger strikes in Isareli jails, in the West Bank city of Al-Bireh. STORYLINE: Two Palestinian prisoners in Israel began today their 20th year behind bars for resisting the occupation and a third began his 19th year behind bars, according to the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS). It said Khalil Mussalam Baraqa, 42, from Bethlehem, and Haytham Jaber, 47, from Salfit, completed 19 years behind bars and have entered their 20th year, while Ahmad Mustafa Shibani, 48, from Arraba, south of Jenin, completed 18 years behind bars and started on his 19th year, and is serving three life terms plus 10 years. A total of 14 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli detention are currently on hunger strike in protest of their unfair administrative detention without a charge or trial, according to the Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs Commission. The Commission called on the international and local human rights and humanitarian institutions to take immediate action to put an end to the Israeli maltreatment of the hunger-striking detainees, including solitary confinement of each hunger striker. Israel’s widely condemned policy of administrative detention allows the detention of 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. Currently, Israel is holding some 540 Palestinians in administrative detention, deemed illegal by international law, most of them former prisoners who spent years in prison for their resistance of the Israeli occupation. Over the years, Israel has placed thousands of Palestinians in administrative detention for prolonged periods of time, without trying them, without informing them of the charges against them, and without allowing them or their counsel to examine the evidence. Palestinian detainees have continuously resorted to open-ended hunger strikes as a way to protest their illegal administrative detention and to demand an end to this policy which violates international law. Footage by APAwire
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