Palestinian Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs Commission reported that the Israeli Prison Service (IPS) transferred the prisoner Imad Sawarka, who has been on hunger strike for 29 consecutive days, to Asqalan Prison in southern Israel in order to punish him.

The commission said in a press statement that the hunger-striking prisoner Sawarka was punitively transferred from the Naqab Prison to Asqalan Prison.

It added that Sawarka, a 37-year-old father of five children from Jericho, has been on a hunger strike in protest against extending his administrative detention for the third time in a row.

It is worth noting that Sawarka was detained in July of the last year, and the Israeli intelligence has issued three administrative orders against him, each lasting for four months. He is a former prisoner who spent a total of 10 years in Israeli detention facilities.