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Palestinian Hunger Strikers in ‘Immediate Danger of Death’

The report below is published through emails by the PWWSD association, it is very important to be propagated: The Palestinian Working Women’s Society for Development would like to express its extreme concern regarding the fate of over 1500 Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli prisons. Two men, Bilal Diyab and Tha’er Halahla, are currently in immediate danger of death following their 73 rd day of hunger strike against the Israeli government practice of administrative detention. Under administrative detention, detainees can be held by the Israeli Prison Service (IPS) in Israeli prisons for 3 months at a time without charge or trial, and with indefinite renewal of the detention after 3 month periods. On Monday the 7 th May the Israeli supreme court rejected appeals by the two men against their administrative detention, citing a need for further review of secret evidence held against them, as act  described as a ‘death sentence’ by Physicians for Human Rig