Palestinian prisoner opens hunger strike as Israel extends her detention

Rasa - Palestinian prisoner Randa al-Shahatit, a resident of the southern occupied West Bank Hebron-area village of Dura, began an open hunger strike on Thursday in protest of her ongoing detention by Israeli forces, according to a lawyer from the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS).

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Date: 27 January 2017 - 20:42

RNA - Palestinian prisoner Randa al-Shahatit, a resident of the southern occupied West Bank Hebron-area village of Dura, began an open hunger strike on Thursday in protest of her ongoing detention by Israeli forces, according to a lawyer from the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS).

Israel's Ofer military court on Thursday extended al-Shahatit’s detention in Israel’s HaSharon prison to 12 days, until Feb. 6, leading her to open a hunger strike after she had been “returning main meals” for a few days prior, according to PPS lawyer Abed al-Nasser al-Nubani.

Al-Shahatit, a former prisoner and mother of three, was detained on January 20th for unspecified reasons.

After spending several years in Israeli jails, al-Shahatit was released in 2011 as part of the Shalit Deal wherein the Hamas movement negotiated the exchange of more than 1,500 political prisoners from Israeli custody in exchange for Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who Hamas had captured five years prior to his release.

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