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<b><small><small><small><small><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://samidoun.net/2016/04/eight-palestinian-prisoners-on-hunger-strike-against-administrative-detention-and-solitary-confinement/">http://samidoun.net/2016/04/eight-palestinian-prisoners-on-hunger-strike-against-administrative-detention-and-solitary-confinement/</a><br>
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<big><big><big>April 5, 2016</big></big></big><br>
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</small></small></small></small></b><b><big><big>Eight
Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike against administrative
detention and solitary confinement</big></big></b><br>
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Multiple Palestinian prisoners are continuing ongoing hunger strikes
against administrative detention without charge or trial and
solitary confinement in Israeli jails.<br>
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Fuad Assi, 30, launched a hunger strike against his administrative
detention without charge or trial, announced Mohja Jerusalem
Foundation on Monday, 4 April. He joins fellow hunger strikers Sami
Janazrah, Imad Batran, Abdel-Rahim Sawayfeh and Abdul-Ghani Safadi,
refusing food in protest of administrative detention. Mohammed Daoud
is on open hunger strike; a former prisoner released in 2011 in the
Wafa al-Ahrar prisoner exchange with the Palestinian resistance, he
was arrested in late 2015 and the remaining five years of his
sentence arbitrarily reimposed upon him. Nahar Saadi and Abdullah
al-Mughrabi are on open hunger strike against their solitary
confinement, demanding a return to the general prison population.<br>
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Janazrah, on hunger strike since 3 March, was transferred two days
ago to hospital; his family is urging action for his freedom amid
the deterioration in his health.<br>
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Assi has been imprisoned without charge or trial since August 2015.
He has spent nearly five years in Israeli jails in three previous
arrests; his brother, Mohammed Assi, was killed by Israeli
occupation forces on 22 October 2013.<br>
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A protest in Al-Khalil yesterday highlighted Janazrah’s case on his
31st day of hunger strike, including families of Palestinian
prisoners and political activists. The Palestinian Prisoners’
Society called for the sit-in outside the office of the
International Committee of the Red Cross; Ahmad al-Najjar of PPS
called for urgent action by the ICRC to protect the striking
prisoners.<br>
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Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network urges people of
conscience around the world, Palestine solidarity organizations and
supporters of justice to take action in support of these Palestinian
prisoners on the front lines in the struggle against occupation and
apartheid. It must not take two and three months of starvation for
the calls of Palestinian prisoners for freedom to be heard and
heeded; it is necessary to mobilize now and build support for not
only the hunger strikers, but for all over 7,000 Palestinian
prisoners, imprisoned in Israeli jails for seeking the freedom of
their people.<br>
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Take Action<br>
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1. Protest at the Israeli consulate or embassy in your area. Bring
posters and flyers about administrative detention and Palestinian
hunger strikers and hold a protest, or join a protest with this
important information. Hold a community event or discussion, or
include this issue in your next event about Palestine and social
justice. Please email us at <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:samidoun@samidoun.net">samidoun@samidoun.net</a> to inform us of
your action – we will publicize and share news with the prisoners.<br>
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2. Contact political officials in your country – members of
Parliament or Congress, or the Ministry/Department of Foreign
Affairs or State – and demand that they cut aid and relations with
Israel on the basis of its apartheid practices, its practice of
colonialism, and its numerous violations of Palestinian rights
including the systematic practice of administrative detention.
Demand they pressure Israel to free the hunger strikers and end
administrative detention.<br>
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3. Boycott, Divest and Sanction. Hold Israel accountable for its
violations of international law. Don’t buy Israeli goods, and
campaign to end investments in corporations that profit from the
occupation. G4S, a global security corporation, is heavily involved
in providing services to Israeli prisons that jail Palestinian
political prisoners – there is a global call to boycott it.
Palestinian political prisoners have issued a specific call urging
action on G4S. Learn more about BDS at bdsmovement.net.<br>
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