APAwire - APAwire CLIENTS ONLY, Ramallah - 25 September 2022. Palestinians attend a press conference in solidarity with prisoners on hunger strike near Ofer Prison, near the West Bank city of Ramallah.
RESTRICTION SUMMARY: APAwire CLIENTS ONLY SHOTLIST: APAwire - APAwire CLIENTS ONLY, Ramallah - 25 September 2022. Palestinians attend a press conference in solidarity with prisoners on hunger strike near Ofer Prison, near the West Bank city of Ramallah. 0.1 SOUNDBITE (in Arabic) Qadri Abu Bakr, head of the Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs Commission. 0.2 SOUNDBITE (in Arabic) Wasel Abu Yousef, member of the Executive Committee of the Liberation Organization. 0.3 SOUNDBITE (in Arabic) Sahar Francis, director of the Addameer Foundation for Prisoner Support and Human Rights. 0.4 SOUNDBITE (in Arabic) Kaddoura Fares, President of the Palestinian Prisoners Club. 0.5 SOUNDBITE (in Arabic) Samoud Saadat, wife of the prisoner Assem Al Kaabi. STORYLINE: Thirty Palestinian administrative detainees in the Israeli prisons start an open-ended hunger strike today in protest of their unfair detention without charges or trial, according to the Palestinian Prisoners Affairs Commission. Hassan Abed Rabbo, a spokesman for the Commission, told WAFA yesterday that the prisoners decided to go on hunger strike as a protest against the policy of administrative detention in which the prisoners are held in prison for renewable periods without charges or trial. The administrative detainees sent a message a few days ago in which they asserted that confronting the administrative detention continues and that the practices of the Israel Prison Services “are no longer governed by the security obsession as an actual driver of the occupation, but rather are acts of revenge due to their past.” Israel has escalated its administrative detention policy against Palestinians as the number of administrative detainees currently exceeded 760, including minors, women, elderly. According to the Commission, 80 percent of the administrative detainees are former prisoners who spent years in the prisons most were administrative detentions. Israel’s widely condemned policy of adminis
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