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<h1 class="article-title">60 Hunger Strikers In Beersheba Prison Held
In Solitary Confinement</h1>
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<span class="article-details"><span class="article-detail"><img
class="icon" src="cid:part1.02050608.00070202@freedomarchives.org"
alt="author"> Wednesday June 04, 2014 06:37</span><span
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src="cid:part2.07020107.09080506@freedomarchives.org" alt="author"> by
Chris Carlson<br>
<small><small><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.imemc.org/article/68008">http://www.imemc.org/article/68008</a></small></small><br>
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<blockquote class="article-intro">The Palestinian Prisoners' Society
has issued a statement confirming that 60 people being held in
Beersheba Prison, in Eshel, are currently engaged in continuous hunger
strike, and that each of them are being held in solitary confinement.<br>
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<p class="article">According to Ma'an News Agency, the prisoners are
among hundreds who are now refusing meals in act of solidarity with
administrative detainees who have been on hunger strike for 41 days.<br>
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Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, of the PLO Executive Committee, said that the
strikers "represent the most selfless struggle for justice and freedom
in Palestine and that the ongoing hunger strike exposes "the cruelty
and illegality of the ongoing illegal occupation, particularly in
relation to the thousands of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails." <br>
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Ashrawi has called on the international community to pressure Israel in
meeting the strikers' demands, Ma'an further reports:<br>
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"The deafening silence from the international media and some official
circles regarding the hundreds of Palestinian prisoner hunger strikers
is inexcusable," she said.<br>
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"We call on all states, members of the press, and people of conscience
to pressure Israel to drop its cruel and illegal use of the colonial
practice of administrative detention and other administrative punitive
measures and form an independent international commission of inquiry to
investigate the severe and illegal violations committed by the IPS
(Israeli Prison Service)."<br>
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Furthermore, Palestinian human rights organization <a sl-processed="1"
href="http://imemc.org/article/68006" trget="_blank">Addameer</a> has
estimated that somewhere around 183 Palestinians are currently being
held under administrative detention conditions, without charge or trial.<br>
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<a sl-processed="1" href="http://imemc.org/article/67566"
target="_blank">Over 800,000 Palestinians have been detained since 1967</a>,
with 5,224 currently being held in Israeli prisons, by the PLO's
calculations.<br>
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A spokesman for IPS could not be immediately reached for comment. </p>
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