THE Arab League has warned of “dangerous repercussions” resulting from the Israeli occupying forces’ treatment of Palestinian political prisoners.

It condemned Tel Aviv on Sunday for its continued disregard for its responsibilities and failure to the respect the rights and humanitarian standards for those held in its prisons.

 Saeed Abu Ali, the 21-member body’s assistant secretary-general for Palestine and the Occupied Arab Territories, said Israel’s “slow death policy” was being committed in full view of the world.

He cited the situation of hunger strikers Ghadanfar Abu Atwan and Iyad Harbiyat, saying that the league holds Israel fully responsible for their lives.

Mr Atwan launched his hunger strike on 5 May in Ramon prison in protest against his detention without charge or trial. Israeli authorities are accused of beating and torturing him when he announced his protest action and placing him in isolation in an insect-infested cell.

The 28-year-old has been jailed four times since the age of 19, spending a total of seven years behind bars.

Speaking to Middle East Eye, his mother Majdoleen Abu Atwan said: “Ghadanfar has spent most of his youth, what are supposed to be the best years of his life, in and out of Israeli prison.

“Over the past 10 years, I have barely got to spend time with my son, and then the Israelis arrest him again.”