News-Middel East- Palestine: A Palestinian commission for prisoners says fourteen Palestinian inmates are currently on hunger strike in Israeli prisons in protest at their indefinite, unfair and unexplained imprisonment at the hands of the Tel Aviv regime.

In a statement released on Sunday, the Palestinian Commission of Detainees' and Ex-Detainees' Affairs said the fourteen Palestinian prisoners have gone on hunger strike to protest against the Tel Aviv regime’s so-called policy of administrative detention, which is a sort of imprisonment without trial or charge, Palestine’s Wafa news agency reported.  

The commission further called on international human rights organizations as well as local humanitarian institutions to take immediate action to put an end to the Israeli maltreatment of the hunger-striking detainees, including solitary confinement,

Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners are held under "administrative detention", in which Israel keeps the detainees without charge for up to six months, a period which can be extended an infinite number of times. Women and minors are among those detainees.

The detention takes place on orders from a military commander and on the basis of what the Israeli regime describes as ‘secret’ evidence.

Some prisoners have been held in administrative detention for up to 11 years.