Some 180 Palestinian Arab security prisoners decided on Sunday to temporarily halt the hunger strike they announced the previous day in protest of the conditions of their incarceration, i24news reported.

It is understood the prisoners, most of whom are incarcerated in Nafha and Rimon facilities on so-called "administrative detention", scrapped the strike after the Israel Prison Service met some of the their demands, including a transfer to another wing and a letup in personal searches, according to the report.


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