An-Najah News -   According to the Palestinian Prisoner's Society a palestinian detainee’s wife began a hunger strike in solidarity with her husband, who has been hunger-striking for almost 70 days.
 Wife of Maher al-Akhras, who has been transferred to Kaplan Medical Center in central Israel after going on hunger strike for 73 consecutive days  in protest of his administrative detention. 

Announced that she has gone on a hunger strike as well in front of the hospital in solidarity with her husband.

Al-Akhras, a 49-year-old father of six children from the Jenin-district town of Silat al-Dahr, was arrested on July 27, 2020 and has been sentenced to four months in administrative detention without charge or trial.

Following his hunger strike and subsequent severe health deterioration, al-Akhras was transferred by the Israeli Prison Service (IPS) to the Kaplan Medical Center.

Doctors received permission to force-feed him, and his health deterioration prompted IPS to freeze his administrative detention.

The Palestine Prisoner’s Society (PPS) affirmed that freezing al-Akhras’ detention instead of cancelling it was an act of deception and constituted an attempt to end his hunger strike without granting him his legitimate rights.