Gitmo hunger strike worries Red Cross

WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 (UPI) -- An ongoing hunger strike by detainees at Guantanamo Bay is raising concerns and questions.

The BBC reports the International Committee of the Red Cross has made a rare move and gone public with their concern about the strike.

ICRC spokeswoman Antonella Notari said her group was worried but wouldn't give any details of what recent visits to Guantanamo Bay uncovered.

The U.S. military said 28 prisoners are on the hunger strike but lawyers for some detainees say that up to 500 may be refusing to eat in protest of conditions at the detention camp.

The military defines a hunger strike as refusing nine straight meals.

A military official said that all detainees are being stabilized with nutrition and fluids.

British lawyer Clive Stafford Smith said the U.S. military is force feeding detainees with feeding tubes as they are shackled to a bed.