Palestinian detainees in all isolation wards in the Israeli occupation authority Jalama jail have gone on hunger strike on Sunday to protest their continued solitary confinement for three months and refusal to transfer them to central prisons despite end of investigation with them.
The Palestinian prisoner's committee said that its lawyer on Sunday went to visit the detainees but was blocked by the administration after telling him that the prisoners were on hunger strike and that it was taking punitive measures against them.
The committee said in a statement on Monday that the Jalama jail is a detention and interrogation center but the Israeli intelligence intentionally retain those detainees in that jail for long periods after questioning them as a kind of "punishment".
It said that the detainees suffer maltreatment, isolation, and torture, adding that most of them spend the entire interrogation period in the same clothes and are not allowed to change them.
