Nablus – Ma’an – Twelve Palestinian detainees held at Juneid prison in Nablus continued their hunger strike for the fourth consecutive day in protest against their detention on Monday.

One of the prisoners told Ma’an in a telephone interview that the strike was undertaken as a protest against Israel’s refusal to pardon the prisoners and a call to Palestinian Authority officials to discuss their cases with Israel.

The detainee added that of the 12 Palestinians partaking in the hunger strike, 11 are affiliated with Fatah’s paramilitary group, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade, while one is a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

Four of the Palestinian prisoners taking part in the hunger strike include Muhammad Milhem, Jad Hmeidan, Sabri Al-Kurdi, and Muhammad Ash-Sharqawi, the detainee added.

On Thursday, Ma'an revealed that Israel agreed to remove 90 former Palestinian fighters from its list of “wanted” men on the eve of the Muslim Eid Al-Adha holiday and to pardon 26 of the men.

Since 2007 former Palestinian fighters signed “amnesty” agreements in which they would hand in their weapons, swear not to fight, and spend a term in a PA jail in exchange for a return to normal life, free of the threat of arrest or assassination by Israeli.