Detained hunger strikers in serious condition

A Palestinian human rights group has warned that two Palestinian detainees on hunger strike in Israeli jails were in serious condition.

The Palestinian prisoner’s association said in a statement on Sunday that Samer Al-Issawi and Ayman Sharawne were on hunger strike for two and three months respectively.

It championed a large-scale campaign in solidarity with the two detainees who were protesting their administrative detention, without charge, after they were released in the prisoners’ exchange deal late last year.

The association charged that the Israeli occupation authority was trying to spread anxiety and restlessness among those prisoners and their relatives ever since their release, breaking into their homes, questioning and detaining them.

The association declared that it would organize a series of solidarity activities to shed light on the suffering of those prisoners.