[Pnews] Palestinian Prisoners gearing up for hunger strike as Nafha sections announce they will join action

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  Prisoners gearing up for hunger strike as Nafha sections announce they
  will join action

April 12, 2017

Palestinian prisoners associated with Fateh are building plans for their 
collective hunger strike 
<http://samidoun.net/2017/03/palestinian-prisoners-plan-17-april-hunger-strike-fateh-prisoners-announce-program/> 
scheduled to begin on 17 April, Palestinian Prisoners’ Day 
<http://samidoun.net/2017/03/call-to-organize-palestinian-prisoners-week-of-action-14-to-24-april-2017/>.

In Nafha prison, Palestinian detainees associated with Fateh, the 
Islamic Jihad movement and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of 
Palestine announced that they would participate in the strike 
<http://asravoice.ps/post/6276> to achieve its demands 
<http://samidoun.net/2017/04/israeli-minister-gilad-erdan-threatens-to-force-hunger-strikers-to-a-field-hospital-isolation-in-negev-desert-prison/>, 
including proper health treatment for sick prisoners, an end to the 
denial and cutbacks on family visits, and an end to administrative 
detention and solitary confinement. The prisoners in sections 3, 4, 10, 
13 and 14 in Nafha prison – approximately 530 prisoners – announced they 
were joining the strike <http://asravoice.ps/post/6276>.

Nashaat al-Wahidi, the spokesperson for Fateh in the National and 
Islamic Forces’ prisoners’ committee in Gaza, said that 1,500 
Palestinian prisoners <http://asravoice.ps/post/6267> will participate 
in the strike, including 120 Palestinian prisoners in Gaza. Marwan 
Barghouthi, the imprisoned Fateh leader, is the spokesperson and 
representative of the striking Fateh prisoners.

Palestinian prisoners from all factions held in Gilboa and Hadarim 
prisons will join the strike, as well as two sections in the Ofer prison 
(approximately 240 prisoners), 30 prisoners in Ashkelon prison, 120 
prisoners in Ramon prison and 150 prisoners in the Negev desert prison, 
in addition to the participants held in Nafha prison.

Israeli Minister of Public Security Gilad Erdan 
<http://samidoun.net/2017/04/israeli-minister-gilad-erdan-threatens-to-force-hunger-strikers-to-a-field-hospital-isolation-in-negev-desert-prison/> 
has threatened to deny prisoners on hunger strike access to standard 
hospitals in an attempt to thwart the strike and block popular 
solidarity in Palestine ’48. Instead, he has ordered the creation of a 
“field hospital” in the Negev desert prison, planning for the transfer 
of hunger strikers, and potentially threatening hunger strikers with 
forced feeding.

Fadwa Barghouthi, Palestinian lawyer and the wife of Marwan Barghouthi, 
urged solidarity <http://asravoice.ps/post/6278> for the prisoners’ 
demands and their hunger strike. A number of Palestinian organizations 
and institutions have organized events for Palestinian Prisoners’ Day 
and the coming weeks.

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