An Israeli Defense Forces soldier has begun a hunger strike to show solidarity with Palestinian administrative detainees.
The soldier, Yaniv Mazor, is currently in military prison for refusing to serve in part of an “occupation army.”
Ann Harrison of Amnesty International has said, “Israel has used its system of administrative detention – intended as an exceptional measure against people posing an extreme and imminent danger to security – to trample on the human rights of detainees for decades. It is a relic that should be put out to pasture.”
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