Almost 1,400 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons are set to go on hunger strike in protest of their detention conditions since a jailbreak last week, the Palestinian Authority said on Tuesday.
Tensions have been running high since six inmates staged a dramatic escape from a high-security jail in northern Israel on September 6, via a tunnel dug under a sink. Four of them have since been recaptured.
Hundreds of their fellow inmates were transferred to other jails and personal items confiscated in searches carried out by guards, according to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club.
“The situation is very bad in the prisons, that’s why they’re going on hunger strike,” Qadri Abu Bakr, head of the Palestinian Authority’s commission for prisoners, told AFP.
He said that 1,380 prisoners — out of more than 4,000 Palestinians held in Israeli jails — were to start the strike action on Friday, to be joined by other inmates next week.
Read more at Times of Israel.
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Great
Save the Israelis money
Good let them starve to death.
Very good let them starve
Most of them should have been sentenced to death in the first place.
If they die — problem solved!
They are always a day off. We jews fast on thursday and they mistake Yom Kippur for Friday. We observe shabbos on Saturday and they made their so called sabbath on Friday. We don’t eat pigs or camels but they do eat camels.