Israel deal: End Palestinian prisoner hunger strike, get 2 family visits a month

The General Committee for Civil Affairs and the International Committee of the Red Cross have reached a deal with Israeli occupation authorities that allows Palestinian families to visit their detained relatives twice a month.

The deal came in accordance with the agreement that stipulates ending the prisoners’ collective hunger strike.

• Administrative detention is the arrest and detention of individuals by the state without charge or trial. It is applicable on a renewable six month term.

In a statement issued yesterday, the Civil Affairs Committee said that an agreement had previously been reached between the Palestinian Authority and the Red Cross which is the body that manages family visitations in Israeli jails.

Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners began a hunger strike earlier this month in protest of their continue administrative detention in Israeli jails.

According to B’Tselem, an Israeli human rights organization, 424 Palestinians were being held in administrative detention as of April 2018.

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