[News] Israel Refuses Palestinian Prisoners' Demands

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DATE: 19/05/2004    TIME :15:52
Israel Refuses Palestinian Prisoners' Demands

GAZA, May 19, 2004 (WAFA) - Head of the Palestinian prisoners' club Issa
Qaraqea said on Wednesday that the Israeli jails' administration still
refuses to abide by the prisoners' demands despite their 9 day-old
hunger-strike.
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Qaraqea said "the prisoners have been on a hunger-strike for nine days and
they intend to continue until the Israel jail's administration approves
their demands'.
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Qaraqea explained that the Palestinian prisoners inside the Israeli Hadarim
jail held the open-ended hunger strike in protest against the jail's
administration measures, such as daily strip-searching, imposing financial
fines on the prisoners, detention in solitary confinement for several days
as well as barring them from their families' visits.
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Qaraqea warned "the prisoners said that if the Israeli jails' administration
doesn't comply with their demands they will launch a water-strike and this
very dangerous on the prisoners' health, especially those who have been
suffering from diseases.".
. Qaraqea added that the Israeli jails' administration has even confiscated
their radios and personal objects as bars access of newspapers in addition
to barring their lawyers from visiting them.
.
' International Red Cross Committee has intervened in order to pressure the
jails' administration to end the humiliating and inhumane practices against
the Palestinian prisoners, but the jails' administration haven't responded',
he said.
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Qaraqea added that stripping Palestinian prisoners has been a policy adopted
by the Israeli jails' administration for years, where all the prisoners, men
and women, are being stripped off their clothes and are submitted to
unethical practices.
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Qaraqea concluded that Palestinians cannot even organize activities in
solidarity with the prisoners due to the Israeli military escalation in the
Gaza Strip, especially in the southern city of Rafah.

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