An-Najah News - Sixty Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails started an open-ended hunger strike in solidarity with their fellow Maher AlAkhras who is on hunger strike for more than eighty days agains his administrative detition by occupation authorities and other two prisoners leaders and other three prisoners leaders in isolation.

The prisoners who are affiliated with Fatah and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) began the hunger strike in protest of the Israeli Prison Service’s (IPS) decision to continue to hold three leaders of the prisoners’ movement incommunicado said spokesman for the Commission of the Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, Hassan Abed-Rabbo.

Abed-Rabbo pointed out that more prisoners were expected to join the strike

This came two days after 30 other prisoners started an open-ended hunger strike in solidarity with Maher al-Akhras.