[Pnews] Recaptured Palestinian prisoner starts hunger strike

[Prisoner News]

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  Recaptured Palestinian prisoner starts hunger strike

October 5, 2021
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Mohammed Al-Arida, one of six Palestinian prisoners who escaped 
<https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210906-israel-six-palestinian-prisoners-escape-from-high-security-prison/> from 
Israel's high-security Gilboa Prison on 6 September and was recaptured 
days later, yesterday started an open-ended hunger strike protesting the 
strict detention conditions he is being held under, the PLO's Detainees 
and Ex-Detainees Affairs Commission said.

Al-Arida has been subject to harassment and harsh punitive measures 
imposed by the Israeli prison service since he was recaptured, 
/Wafa/ news agency reported. These include keeping him in isolation for 
14 days without any personal belongings, banning him from family visits 
and buying essentials from the canteen for two months, in addition to 
fining him.

He is being held in isolation without blankets or pillow in a small, 
dirty and unventilated cell that lacks the basic living standards. 
He has not been able to take a shower for days because he is being 
monitored around the clock by surveillance cameras.

Forty-six-year-old Al-Arida, from the town of Arraba near Jenin, was 
arrested in 1996 and he is serving a life sentence.

*READ: The Gilboa Prison escape meant a lot for our freedom struggle, 
says Gaza sand sculptor 
<https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210929-the-gilboa-prison-escape-meant-a-lot-for-our-freedom-struggle-says-gaza-sand-sculptor/>*

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