APAwire - APAwire CLIENTS ONLY, Gaza- 15 November 2021. Palestinian of the Fatah supporters take part in a protest in solidarity with prisoners on hunger strike at Israeli jails, in front of Red Cross office.
RESTRICTION SUMMARY: APAwire CLIENTS ONLY SHOTLIST: APAwire - APAwire CLIENTS ONLY, Gaza- 15 November 2021. Palestinian of the Fatah supporters take part in a protest in solidarity with prisoners on hunger strike at Israeli jails, in front of Red Cross office. 0.1 SOUNDBITE (in Arabic) Tamer Al-Zaanin, media spokesperson for Mahja Al-Quds STORYLINE: Five Palestinian prisoners in Israeli detention currently remain on hunger strike in protest of their unfair and indefinite administrative detention without a charge or trial, according to the Detainees Affairs Commission. The oldest hunger-striker of the seven prisoners is prisoner Kayed Fasfous, who has been on hunger strike for 124 days in protest of his detention without a charge or trial, followed by Alaa Aaraj (100 days), Hesham Abu Hawwash (91 days), Ayyad Hureimi (54 days) and Lo’ai Al-Ashqar (36 days days). 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. On Thursday, UN experts expressed grave fear for the lives of the hunger strikers, and called on Israel to either release or charge the prisoners, and to completely end its unlawful practice of administrative detention. "In violation of international law, Israel continues to use administrative detention to imprison more than 500 Palestinians -- including six children -- without charges, without trials, without convictions, all based on classified secret information that the detainees have no access to," the experts said. "They have no recourse to challenging these undisclosed allegations, and they do not know when, or if, they are going to be released." Currently, Israel is holding over 450 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. Footage by APAwire
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