Hemaya Centre for Human Rights (HCHR) Wednesday has condemned the policy used by the Israeli jails administration against Palestinian detainees and called for urgent intervention to save the life of the 49-year-old detainee Maher Al-Akhras.

Al-Akhras continues his open hunger strike for the 73 days in Kaplan hospital, in protest of his administrative detention, amid warnings of deteriorating his health condition.

The center has confirmed that that the policy of Israeli jails administration is a flagrant violation of the rules and principles of international humanitarian law.

It calls on the International Committee of the Red Cross to move urgently to save his life and urged to form an international commission to investigate the violations of the Israeli authorities to the rights of detainees guaranteed by international law.

It also demanded the international community and the contracting States of the Geneva convention to take urgent action to end the suffering of Palestinian detainees and to stop the collective punishment practiced against them.

Al-Akhras, 49, a father of six children, was detained four times before. He was first detained in 1989, when he spent seven months in detention, for the second time in 2004, when he spent two years in detention and once again in 2009 when he was held for 16 months in administrative detention, and another time in 2018 when he spent 11 months in detention.

He was recently detained on July 27, 2020, and has been sentenced to four months in administrative detention without charge or trial.