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<h1><b>Palestinian Detainees To Go On Hunger
Strike</b></h1>
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</b></h1><font size=3> Friday September 24, 2010
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by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies
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http://www.imemc.org/article/59468<br><br>
</a></font>Approximately 7,500 Palestinian political prisons held by
Israel will start, on Saturday September 25, a hunger strike demanding
that Israel halt its violations and attacks against them, and to improve
their living conditions. <br><br>
Riyadh al-Ashqar, head of the Media Department at the Ministry of
Detainee in Gaza, called on the Palestinian people to act in solidarity
with the detainees and to form a lobbying power that boosts the detainees
in achieving their legitimate rights.<br><br>
Al-Ashqar said that the detainees face unimaginable suffering in Israeli
prisons, detention camps and interrogation centers, and added that Israel
is readying to use ultimate force against the detainees should they hold
a strike. <br><br>
He held Israel and the Israeli Prison Administration (IPA) fully
responsible for the lives of the detainees and added that dozens of
detainees were recently wounded after being attacked by the soldiers who
broke into their rooms and searched them.<br><br>
Al-Ashqar demanded international human rights groups, mainly the
International Red Cross, to intervene and to send probe committees that
would observe the illegal Israeli measures and attacks against the
detainees. <br><br>
Furthermore, al-Ashqar called on the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority in
Ramallah, to withdrew from the talks with Israel as, according to him,
such talks provide Israel with legitimacy to continue its crimes against
the Palestinian detainees. <br><br>
Ismail al-Thawabta, head of the Palestinian Center for Defending the
Detainees, said that, through their strike, the detainees want to send a
message to the world to inform the International Community that they are
deprived of their basic rights guaranteed by international law. <br><br>
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