"The hunger strikers are currently imprisoned under Israel's so-called administrative detention law -- in place since the end of the 1948 British mandate in Palestine – which allows the arrest of Palestinians deemed a 'threat' to Israel's national security ..."
http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/99913.aspx
"Four Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jail began a hunger strike on Wednesday in protest against their detention without trial, a Palestinian prisoner advocacy group said on Sunday.
"News of the four hunger strikers follows reports that over 100 Palestinian prisoners began a mass, open-ended hunger strike in a number of Israeli jails on Thursday in protest against being held without charge or trial under a policy Israel calls 'administrative detention' ..."
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=693169
"Israeli authorities transported 70 administrative prisoners in Al-Naqab prison from cells to tents in the aftermath of their open hunger strike started three days ago.
"A released prisoner, Mohamed Al-Souki, 29 years old, said that the prison administration transferred administrative prisoners to tents as a collective punishment, and threatened to take additional punitive measures against them ..."
-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."