Hunger strike for more than 17 days now, demanding an end to imprisonment without a trial as well as better detaining conditions.
More than 300 Palestinian prisoners are held in administrative detention without any trial.
Seven Palestinian prisoners’ hunger-strikers have started their hunger strike before the other prisoners for different periods of time (19 days- 67 days).
The two longest hunger strikers since February 28th 2012, Bilal Diab 27, and Thaer Halahleh 33, are both administrative detainees. Diab has been in administrative detention since August 2011 and Halahleh since June 2010. They are both in critical health conditions and are receiving inadequate medical cure. Thus, they may martyrize at any moment.
Israeli Prison authorities are waging a campaign of punishment against the hunger strikers, which includes daily raids on their cells, the confiscation of personal belongings, cutting their electricity supply and other measures deemed illegal under Fourth Geneva Convention.
One form of punishing Palestinian prisoners is medical negligence. Since 1967, at least 51 Palestinian political prisoners have been killed due to the deliberate medical negligence widespread in Israeli dungeons. Palestinian female prisoners in need of medical treatment are denied appropriate and urgent medical care. Instead, they are
punished with isolation, withholding or delaying the provision of medicine and treatment, thus contributing to deterioration in their situation and leaving them to die a slow and painful death. All ailment and diseases, no matter how malignant, are
“treated” with pain killers, expired or useless medicines and those who do get operated end up in a worse situation than before the operation. Palestinian prisoners are treated either in the so-called prison clinics or are sent to the Ramleh prison “hospital”. Both the “hospital” and the clinics lack basic medical equipment and
supplies and are run by military personnel with little to no medical training.
It was supposed yesterday that Israel would reply to the Hunger Strikers’ demands, but as always nothing bother Israel even the lives of thousands innocent people and it is continuing its procrastination policy even with this crucial matter.
The Department of International Relations (DAIR) in PLO calls upon the International community to put pressure on Israel to resolve the situation by immediate release of all administrative, female and children prisoners and NOT to spare any effort to support the demands of the Hunger Strikers…..
THE PALESTINIAN AND ARAB HUNGER STRIKERS NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT AND HELP TO END THEIR AGONY……
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