Close to 5000 Palestinian captives in Israeli jals

The Palestinian Prisoner Club has said in a recent report that as of 2013 there were close to 5,000 Palestinian captives spread over 27 Isreali prisons, jails, detention centers and interrogation centers.
It said 106 of the captives have been in jail since before the signing of the Oslo accords between Israel and PLO in 1993, which means they have been detained for more than 20 years, and 50 of them have been detained more than 25 years including Karim Younis, the longest serving prisoner after serving 31 years in Israeli prisons.
There are now 14 woman captives with Lina Jarbouni being the longest serving captive, so far held for 11 years out of her 20-year sentence, and 235 child prisoners in Israeli jails.
There are currently 200 administrative detainees, 14 of them are members of parliament. The report said there is no official number for sick captives but it is estimated that the number is around 1000. It said the Israeli authorities were neglecting the health of captives, many of them suffer from heart conditions, lung, kidney and vertebral problems. Some of prisoners are paralyzed, amputees or dismembered with intolerable pain that is only addressed by pain killers and sedatives. Some Israeli prisons are filled with Palestinian captives held in solitary confinement as a punishment.
Solitary confined captives live in the worst sections of the prison in conditions stripped out of minimum human rights, exposed to abuse and humiliation on daily basis.
Some compare solitary confinement to being buried alive. Hunger strikes started in the past two years, said the report, which was sparked by Khader Adnan in an attempt to have needs addressed creating a new approach of Palestinian resistance.
Adnan’s hunger strike was in response to his detention administratively and had brought the issue of Palestinian prisoners and Israeli atrocities into the international spotlight, said the report. However, sick captives and rearrested former captives have now joined the hunger strike phenomena with the case of Samer Issawi as the most obvious one.
Issawi started his hunger strike in August to protest his rearrested after his release in the October 2011 prisoners exchange deal.