{"id":13857,"date":"2018-06-01T13:29:40","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T13:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=13857"},"modified":"2018-06-01T13:29:40","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T13:29:40","slug":"over-400-palestinian-prisoners-to-go-on-hunger-strike-in-israeli-jails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/over-400-palestinian-prisoners-to-go-on-hunger-strike-in-israeli-jails\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 400 Palestinian prisoners to go on hunger strike in Israeli jails"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p><strong>Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners currently being held in Israeli jails and detention facilities are expected to launch a hunger strike next week in protest against their detention without charge or trial.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Head of the Palestinian Authority\u2019s Committee for Prisoners\u2019 Affairs, Issa Qaraqe, said in a statement\u00a0that some 500 Palestinian inmates have been boycotting Israeli courts since February, and demanding an end to Israel&#8217;s policy of administrative detention \u2013 a controversial form of imprisonment that allows Israeli authorities to detain individuals indefinitely without charge, trial or access to counsel.<\/p>\n<p>Qaraqe added that the detainees would be \u201cescalating measures\u201d in early June, and would be launching a widespread hunger strike.<\/p>\n<p>The administrative detainees are calling upon people from all walks of the Palestinian nation to support their action, the Palestinian official said.<\/p>\n<p>Qaraqe further noted that he expects Israeli authorities to \u201cexercise unprecedented repression and isolate the inmates\u201d during the strike.<\/p>\n<p>More than 7,000 Palestinians are reportedly held at Israeli jails. Hundreds of the inmates have apparently been incarcerated under the practice of administrative detention, a policy under which Palestinian inmates are kept in Israeli detention facilities without trial or charge.<\/p>\n<p>Some Palestinian prisoners have been held in administrative detention for up to eleven years.<\/p>\n<p>Palestinian inmates regularly stage hunger strikes in protest at the administrative detention policy and their harsh prison conditions in Israeli jails.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, at least 13 Palestinian lawmakers are currently imprisoned in Israeli detention facilities. Nine of them are being held without trial under administrative detention.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners currently being held in Israeli jails and detention facilities are expected to launch a hunger strike next week in protest against their detention without charge or trial. Head of the Palestinian Authority\u2019s Committee for Prisoners\u2019 Affairs, Issa Qaraqe, said in a statement\u00a0that some 500 Palestinian inmates have been boycotting Israeli courts &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":13858,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news-and-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13859,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13857\/revisions\/13859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}