Baku-APA. People in the besieged Gaza Strip have held rallies to show their support for a group of hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners kept in Israeli jails, APA reports quoting Press TV.
The demonstrators gathered in front of the offices of the United Nations and Red Cross in the coastal enclave. The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) organized the protests.
More than 120 Palestinian inmates have been on an open-ended strike since April 24 in protest against Israeli administrative detentions.
In a letter posted on Facebook, the inmates have stated that they would not give up their hunger strike campaign despite extreme weakness.
Most of the striking prisoners are elderly and many of them suffer from serious health conditions. Officials say a number of prisoners have been taken to hospital over deteriorating health conditions.
Administrative detention is a sort of imprisonment without trial or charge that allows Israel to incarcerate Palestinians for up to six months. The detention order can be renewed for indefinite periods of time.
“The administrative detainees have been on hunger strike for nearly three weeks now. Their detention condition is a grave violation of the international laws and norms. The DFLP demands that the international community stop turning a blind eye to Israeli human rights violations,” Talal Aby Zarifah from the DFLP told Press TV.
Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails have been subject to human rights violations such as the use of torture during interrogation by prison authorities. Human rights groups often criticize the Israeli prison authorities for rampant rights abuses in jails and mysterious deaths of inmates in custody.
More than 5,000 Palestinians are reportedly being held in Israeli prisons, nearly 200 of them under administrative detention orders.
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