Palestinian prisoner Hassan Shokeh, 30, held without charge or trial under administrative detention, has entered his third week of hunger strike, demanding his release. On 23 June, he was transferred to isolation in Ramle prison from Ofer prison.

Shokeh, a former long-term hunger striker, is protesting his transfer to administrative detention. As he enters his third week without food, he is facing severe health symptoms. He cannot walk and must use a wheelchair to get around and has severe pain in the kidneys, head and eyes. He refuses to perform medical tests in the prison clinic.

Shokeh was seized by the Israeli occupation on 29 September 2017, only one month after he was released from Israeli jails on 31 August 2017. He launched his open hunger strike for the first time on 11 October after he was ordered to administrative detention without charge or trial. He suspended the strike on 14 November after 35 days, after his case was moved to the military courts. There, he was sentenced to six months in Israeli prison. After his sentence expired on 3 June 2018, however, he was not released but arbitrarily ordered once more to administrative detention without charge or trial.

Shokeh is not the only hunger striker in Israeli prisons – Jawad Jawarish, 42, serving a life sentence for his involvement with the resistance through the Fateh movement’s Al-Aqsa Brigades, has been on strike for 19 days against his isolation and transfer.

In addition, other former long-term hunger strikers are facing renewed imprisonment without charge or trial. The administrative detention of Palestinian prisoner and former long-term hunger striker Anas Shadid, 22, was extended once again on 20 June for an additional six months. Shadid, from the town of Dura near al-Khalil, was re-arrested by Israeli occupation forces on 14 June 2017 after he had been released for only two weeks from nine months in administrative detention without charge or trial.

During that time, he carried out an 88-day hunger strike demanding his freedom and protesting administrative detention. He ended his strike with an agreement that his administrative detention would be ended on 30 May. However, only two weeks after his freedom, occupation forces came to, once again, throw him in jail without charge or trial. Since his re-arrest, his detention has been extended three times.

Since 15 February, Palestinian administrative detainees have engaged in a comprehensive boycott of the Israeli military courts. They refuse to participate in the rubber-stamp process that provides a thin veneer of legality to the system. Administrative detention orders can be issued for up to six months at a time, and they are indefinitely renewable. Palestinians have spent years at a time jailed without charge or trial under administrative detention.

Since the beginning of June, 44 administrative detention orders have been issued by the Israeli occupation, including 22 for the first time after their arrest. Among the others, this includes a renewal of the detention order of prominent Palestinian leftist, feminist parliamentarian Khalida Jarrar, who has already been jailed for a year, for an additional four months. The detention orders issued so far in June are:

1. Wissam Mufid ‘Abed, Jenin, 4 months, new order

2. Yazan Aysir Nizalin, Bethlehem, 3 months, new order

3. Mu’min Abdel-Aziz Hreibat, al-Khalil, 6 months, new order

4. Mohammed Hassan Aadi, al-Khalil, 4 months, extension

5. Issam Jamil Eshtayyeh, Nablus, 6 months, extension

6. Nayef Abdel-Fattah Bazzar, Ramallah, 6 months, new order

7. Mohammed Khaled Abu Sal, al-Khalil, 4 months, extension

8. Musaab Saher Barghouthi, Ramallah, 6 months, new order

9. Mu’min Musa Atrash, al-Khalil, 6 months, new order

10. Mahmoud Hassan Wardian, Bethlehem, 4 months, new order

11. Osama Hussein Shahin, al-Khalil, 4 months, new order

12. Ziad Ali al-Qawasmeh, al-Khalil, 6 months, new order

13. Munjid Musa al-Junaidi, al-Khalil, 4 months, new order

14. Munjed Khaled Ashour, al-Khalil, 4 months, new order

15. Munjid Mohammed Qimri, al-Khalil, 4 months, new order

16. Zaid Akram Qawasmeh, al-Khalil, 4 months, new order

17. Basem Mohammed Abidu, al-Khalil, 4 months, new order

18. Abdullah Mohammed Abidu, al-Khalil, 4 months, new order

19. Hisham Hmedian Sharabati, al-Khalil, 4 months, new order

20. Ibrahim Fadl al-Sheikh, Jerusalem, 6 months, new order

21. Mohammed Walid Bani Jarrah, Jenin, 6 months, new order

22. Karam Bassam Tanina, al-Khalil, 4 months, new order

23. Noureddine Ahmed Sweifa, al-Khalil, 3 months, new order

24. Abdel-Majid Ahmed Abu Srour, Bethlehem, 5 months, new order

25. Mohammed Jamal Hamideh, Ramallah, 4 months, extension

26. Fadi Mohammed Nasrallah, Bethlehem, 6 months, extension

27. Yousef Bader Akhil, al-Khalil, 4 months, extension

28. Khalida Kanaan Jarrar, Ramallah, 4 months, extension

29. Ammar Mustafa Abu Aker, Bethlehem, 6 months, extension

30. Shehab Hassan Mezher, Bethlehem, 6 months, extension

31. Fouad Rabah Assi, Ramallah, 4 months, extension

32. Anas Ibrahim Shadid, al-Khalil, 6 months, extension

33. Sharif Nayef Suleiman, Jenin, 4 months, extension

34. Basil Hussam Ma’allah, Ramallah, 4 months, extension

35. Ahmed Jamal Abu Jalghaif, Bethlehem, 4 months, extension

36. Jihad Abdel-Qader Abdel-Fattah, Ramallah, 4 months, extension

37. Adib Mohammed Mafarjah, Ramallah, 4 months, extension

38. Jihad Mohammed Suleiman, Ramallah, 4 months, extension

39. Mohammed Ahmed Sabah, Ramallah, 4 months, extension

40. Qassem Majd Barghouthi, Ramallah, 4 months, extension

41. Mohammed Abdel-Aziz Faqih, Jerusalem, 2 months, extension

42. Ibrahim Kamal Shalabi, Jenin, 3 months, extension

43. Munther Yousef Zouneh, al-Khalil, 6 months, new order

44. Omar Diab Abu Shkeidam, al-Khalil, 6 months, extension

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