JENIN, (PIC)-- The Israeli occupation authorities extended the administrative detention of Wasfi Kabaha, former Minister of prisoners’ affairs and leader in Hamas movement from the city of Jenin in the northern West Bank.

Kabaha's wife said in a press statement on Wednesday that the prison administration of Hadarim, where her husband has been held, informed him about the decision to renew his administrative decision, issued by the Ofer court, for an additional six months.

She pointed out that the administrative detention of her husband, who had been arrested in June last year, has been renewed 4 consecutive times

She also reported that leader Wasfi Kabha, 53, suffers from diabetes and high blood pressure, and that he had spent ten years in the occupation jails as he was repeatedly detained over the past two decades.