Palestinian captive on hunger strike for ten days

Lehremi, 26 years old from Bethlehem, was abducted by the Israeli occupation authorities on July 4, and was placed in administrative detention, without charge or trial, for six months.

A former captive, Lehremi suffers from health problems in the kidneys, and has undergone several surgeries. He is married and has two children.

Israel’s widely condemned practice of administrative detention allows the detention of Palestinians without charge or trial for renewable intervals ranging between three and six months based on undisclosed evidence that even a detainee’s lawyer is barred from viewing.

Amnesty International has described Israel’s use of administrative detention as a “bankrupt tactic” and has long called on Israel to bring its use to an end.

Palestinian captives have continuously resorted to open-ended hunger strikes as a way to protest their illegal administrative detention and to demand an end to this policy, which violates international law.