Palestinians close shops in West Bank

Palestinians have closed their shops in the occupied West Bank in solidarity with the Palestinian prisoners who have been on hunger strike in Zionist regime’s jails.

According to Press TV, shop owners took part in the one-day strike on Sunday in support of the Palestinian inmates who have been refusing food to express their opposition to the Israeli “administrative detention,” which is a sort of imprisonment without trial or charge that allows Zionist regime to incarcerate Palestinians for up to six months.

The so-called administrative detention order can be renewed for indefinite periods of time.

A Palestinian shop owner told Press TV “The Higher Committee of Prisoners Affairs as well as national and Islamic forces have called for this strike throughout West Bank in solidarity with our hunger-striking prisoners.”

According to Palestinian sources, there are nearly 200 administrative prisoners, including nine members of the Palestinian Legislative Council, in Zionist regime’s jails.