The Palestinian Authority reported Saturday that Palestinian prisoner Sabea al-Titi has ended his indefinite hunger strike after 19 days of protest after reaching an agreement with the Israeli Prison Service to end his solitary confinement.
The Palestinian Prisoners and Prisoners’ Affairs Committee explained that al-Titi, originally from the Balata refugee camp in Nablus, West Bank, was arrested on April 10 and placed under administrative detention, an Israeli legal figure that allows indefinite imprisonment without charge for terror suspects.
The prisoner was initially sentenced to six months in jail, but three days before the end of that period, he was prescribed an additional six months. He spent more than a month in solitary confinement and was banned from family visits and from shopping in the prison cafeteria, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA.
In response, he went on an indefinite hunger strike that caused him dizziness, joint pain, headaches and significant weight loss, according to the Commission. His sister, Asil, was detained by Israeli authorities on October 2 during a visit to Al Titi in Israel’s Rimon prison in the Negev desert in southern Israel.
