Palestinian prisoners in Askalan launch single day hunger strike

GAZA, (PIC)-- Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli Askalan jail have gone on a single day hunger strike on Tuesday to protest their bad incarceration conditions. Prisoners said that the strike is meant to pressure the prison administration to improve their imprisonment conditions topped by improving health services, allowing family visits, and ending solitary confinement. They threatened a series of escalatory steps in the near future in the event the administration did not respond to their demands, and urged the media to shed light on their suffering. In a similar development, Palestinian prisoners in Raymond jail said that they would go on hunger strike every Tuesday starting next month to demand an end to the administration’s suppressive measures against them. Attoun calls for internationalizing prisoners’ issueFor his part, exiled Jerusalemite MP Ahmed Attoun said at the weekly rally for relatives of prisoners in front of the Red Cross office in El Bireh on Tuesday that prisoners have sacrificed all for the sake of the Palestine cause and holy shrines. He urged all Palestinian factions to prioritize the issue of prisoners and to unite for their sake and leave behind their differences. Attoun called for internationalizing the issue of Palestinian prisoners and raising it at all platforms and demanding the immediate release of the sick and old prisoners.

Palestinian prisoners in Askalan launch single day hunger strike