An-Najah News - 349 new coronavirus cases and one death were announced today by the Ministry of Health raising the total number of confirmed cases and the death toll in the occupied territories since the pandemic outbreak to 7037 and 37 respectively.

 166 of the new cases were recorded in the Hebron district, 105 in East Jerusalem, 49 in Ramallah, 11 in Bethlehem, seven in Nablus, and six in Tulkarm.

The number of active cases now stands at 5763.

An-Najah News -  Three Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisions are still on the hunger strike they declared a few weeks ago in protest against their administrative detention without charge or trial according to the Palestinian Authority's Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs.

The Commission said in a statement that Odai Shehadeh, and and Fadi Ghneimat, have been on hunger strike for 20 and 19 days in a row respectively at Ofer military camp near Ramallah and Mahmoud Saadi, has been on hunger strike for 12 days and is being held at Hadarim prison.

Palestinians in administrative detention resort to hunger strike to force Israel to release them because otherwise they could be left in prison for long periods of time without charge or trial 

There are currently over 350 Palestinian administrative prisoners  in Israeli prisons.