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Mon, 07/04/2011 - 09:23
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Palestinian Prisoners Stage Hunger Strike over Abuse in Israeli Jails
TEHRAN (FNA)- Thousands of Palestinian prisoners in Israel started a mass hunger strike to defend prisoners' rights and protest against Israeli guards' inhumane behavior.
Over 7,000 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails described the strike as the beginning of a fight to defend prisoner rights and dignity against the unprecedented measures adopted by the Tel Aviv regime against them.
According to a report by the Palestinian WAFA news agency, the prisoners called in a statement on Palestinian and international human rights organizations to support the effort, back their struggle and voice their solidarity with the detainees against their Israeli oppressors.
Meantime, Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails and prisons earned a large popular support in the Palestinian territories as they Sunday went on a one-day hunger strike in protest against the tight measures of the Israeli prisons authorities against them.
Ziad Abu Ein, director of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) ministry of prisoners affairs in the West Bank, told Xinhua in a telephone interview that all the prisoners in all Israeli jails, prisons and detention camps are hunger striking for one day against the Israeli measures in prisons.
"The strike is a warning massage to the Israeli government, and it would be escalated if the Israeli prisons authorities continued their tightened measures against our prisoners such as keeping prisoners in solitary for several years."
In Gaza city, dozens of prisoners' relatives demonstrated before the headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). They waved Palestinian flags, carried the pictures of their imprisoned sons and chanted slogans calling for their release.
The Youths Initiative to Defend Prisoners in Israeli jails said in a press release distributed during the rally in front of the ICRC that the group would continue escalating their activities to support the prisoners and their cause as well as keeping the pressure on Israel to stop its measures against the prisoners.
Meanwhile, dozens of Palestinians demonstrated in the West Bank city of Ramallah. They condemned what they called "the Israeli repressive measures against the prisoners, while relatives of the prisoners announced they would erect a tent of solidarity with the prisoners in the center of Ramallah.
They condemned "the silence of the international law organizations towards Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's announcement as he called for tightening the measures against the Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails", adding that there will be "no permanent peace before the prisoners release".
Meanwhile, Sami Abu Zuhri, spokesman of the Islamic Hamas movement, said in a press statement e-mailed to reporters that the crimes against the prisoners and carrying out more punishing measures "won't change our terms to finalize the prisoners swap deal".
Over 7,000 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails described the strike as the beginning of a fight to defend prisoner rights and dignity against the unprecedented measures adopted by the Tel Aviv regime against them.
According to a report by the Palestinian WAFA news agency, the prisoners called in a statement on Palestinian and international human rights organizations to support the effort, back their struggle and voice their solidarity with the detainees against their Israeli oppressors.
Meantime, Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails and prisons earned a large popular support in the Palestinian territories as they Sunday went on a one-day hunger strike in protest against the tight measures of the Israeli prisons authorities against them.
Ziad Abu Ein, director of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) ministry of prisoners affairs in the West Bank, told Xinhua in a telephone interview that all the prisoners in all Israeli jails, prisons and detention camps are hunger striking for one day against the Israeli measures in prisons.
"The strike is a warning massage to the Israeli government, and it would be escalated if the Israeli prisons authorities continued their tightened measures against our prisoners such as keeping prisoners in solitary for several years."
In Gaza city, dozens of prisoners' relatives demonstrated before the headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). They waved Palestinian flags, carried the pictures of their imprisoned sons and chanted slogans calling for their release.
The Youths Initiative to Defend Prisoners in Israeli jails said in a press release distributed during the rally in front of the ICRC that the group would continue escalating their activities to support the prisoners and their cause as well as keeping the pressure on Israel to stop its measures against the prisoners.
Meanwhile, dozens of Palestinians demonstrated in the West Bank city of Ramallah. They condemned what they called "the Israeli repressive measures against the prisoners, while relatives of the prisoners announced they would erect a tent of solidarity with the prisoners in the center of Ramallah.
They condemned "the silence of the international law organizations towards Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's announcement as he called for tightening the measures against the Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails", adding that there will be "no permanent peace before the prisoners release".
Meanwhile, Sami Abu Zuhri, spokesman of the Islamic Hamas movement, said in a press statement e-mailed to reporters that the crimes against the prisoners and carrying out more punishing measures "won't change our terms to finalize the prisoners swap deal".
