Occupied Jerusalem - SANA
Hundreds of Palestinians today called on the international community and human rights institutions during a stand in Tulkarm to put pressure on the Israeli occupation to immediately release the prisoners in its detention centers, especially the prisoner Maher Al-Akhras, who has been on hunger strike for 93 days.
Wafa news agency reported that the participants in the stand in front of the Red Cross office affirmed their solidarity with all prisoners in the occupation prisons, especially the mute prisoner who is fighting an empty stomach battle in the face of the occupation amid a serious deterioration of his health.
The director of the prisoner's club office in Tulkarm, Ibrahim al-Nimr, warned of the deterioration of the health status of the mute prisoner and the sick prisoners who live in very difficult conditions, especially Kamal Abu Wa'er, who had a cancerous tumor in the larynx, who lost the ability to speak and eat and began to lose weight sharply, stressing the need for human rights institutions to bear International humanitarianism has its responsibilities and puts pressure on the occupation authorities to stop their violations of the right of the prisoners and to quickly release the sick, the elderly, women and children whose lives are in danger.
About five thousand Palestinian prisoners inside the Israeli occupation prisons face harsh detention conditions, as 1,800 prisoners suffer from multiple diseases due to the spread of epidemics and germs, and among them about 700 prisoners need urgent treatment, especially cases of cancer, kidney failure and paraplegia.