The independent experts also called upon Israel to end its harsh detention conditions of Palestinian prisoners: “the imposition of solitary confinement on detainees already weakened by months of hunger strike, must stop immediately” they said. Israel’s practices exceed all of the international legal boundaries.” “In international law, administrative detention is permitted only in exceptional circumstances, and only for short periods of time. UN calls for Israel to comply with its obligation, have come to no avail, the experts said. This states that an occupying power cannot transfer prisoners from occupied territory, to detention centres in its territory. The experts noted that Israel has regularly violated its legal duty under the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949. Shadi Abu Aka is currently in a prison clinic. Two other men, Alaa Al-Araj, and Hisham Ismail Abu Hawash, were transferred on 19 October to Israeli hospitals after their health detoriated. However, the rights experts pointed out that they decided to continue with their strike despite their very frail condition, because the suspension does not mean their release. On 7 October and 14 October, the Israeli High Court of Justice suspended their administrative detention orders. He has been in intensive care there since 19 October. Al Qawasameh was transferred to Kaplan Hospital after his health deteriorated. Al-Fasous who was reportedly held in harsh conditions in solitary confinement, and is now in Barzelai hospital. The rights experts highlighted the cases of two of the men, Kayed Al-Fasous and Miqdad Al-Qawasameh, who are said to be in imminent danger of death. They are being held on the basis of “classified secret information” that the detainees cannot access or challenge, and they do not know “when, or if, they are going to be released”, according to the Human Rights Council-appointed experts.Īccording to them, the five hunger strikers, all men in their twenties and thirties, have been refusing food for between 58 and 99 days to protest being held in administrative detention for months or even years at a time. UN experts appeal to #Israel to urgently release or charge five Palestinians currently on hunger strike in Israeli prisons & dangerously ill + to completely end its unlawful practice of administrative detention: #StandUp4HumanRights /xGCFeuNJ圜- UN Special Procedures Octo‘Classified secret information’