Prisoner Issa still on hunger strike in solidarity with other striking prisoners

GAZA, (PIC)-- Ahrar center for prisoners' studies and human rights said prisoner Mahmoud Issa is still on hunger strike in solidarity with other hunger strikers after his transfer from his solitary confinement to the general wards. Director of Ahrar center Fouad Al-Khafsh told the Palestinian information center (PIC) that there are negotiations underway between representatives of the hunger strikers and the Israeli prison authority. Khafsh affirmed that the Israeli jailers ended the solitary confinement of prisoner Waleed Khaled as well. He noted that this Israeli step came as a result of international pressures on the Israeli government to make a goodwill gesture to end the hunger strike, but leaders of the captive movement refuse such Israeli concessions and insist that the hunger strike is related to the suffering of all prisoners and not to one person or group. For his part, prisoner and university professor Mohamed Ghazal described the transfer of some prisoners from their isolation cells to other sections as the initial victory over the Israeli jailer. In a leaked statement, Ghazal urged the Palestinian masses to continue their popular moves in solidarity with the prisoners until they succeed in their battle against the jailer.