Prisoner Continues Hunger Strike For 45th Day In A Row


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Prisoner Imad Abdel Aziz Al-Batran, 47, from the city of Hebron in the south of the West Bank is continuing his open hunger strike for the 45th consecutive day to protest his administrative detention, amid a deterioration in his health condition.

The Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs Committee stated in a statement received by Safa on Monday that Al-Battran, who is currently isolated in Nitzan Al-Ramla, suffers from emaciation, general weakness, and pains in his body, and he complains of itching and redness in most parts of his body.

Al-Battran was a former prisoner, who spent about 10 years in the Israeli prisons, and during his years of detention he went on an open-ended hunger strike for the first time in 2013, and continued for 105 days, and during 2016 he went on strike again for 36, and this is his third hunger strike.

The committee indicated that the Israeli authorities are trying to dissuade the prisoner from this step and pressure him to break the strike that he started while he was in Megiddo’s cells, but he continues with his strike until the end of his administrative detention and not renewed again.

The captive Al-Battran is married and a father of five children. He is the brother of the prisoner, Tariq Al-Batran, who has been imprisoned for 16 years and is sentenced to life imprisonment.Source : Safa


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