Israeli occupation authorities released last Thursday the prisoner Amr Al-Shami from Jenin camp in the south of the northern occupied West Bank after he spent 16 months in Israeli prisons.

Family sources reported that Al-Shami was released from the Negev prison after he went on a hunger strike for 18 days in protest of his administrative detention.

They pointed out that the release came after the end of his one-year sentence, as he was transferred to administrative detention for a period of 4 months.

Currently, Israel is holding some 540 Palestinians in administrative detention, deemed illegal by international law, most of them former prisoners who spent years in prison for their resistance to the Israeli occupation.

Palestinian detainees have continuously resorted to open-ended hunger strikes as a way to protest their illegal administrative detention and to demand an end to this policy which violates international law.