Occupied Jerusalem-SANA
Dozens of Palestinians participated today in the West Bank city of Hebron in a solidarity stand in support of the prisoners in the Israeli occupation detention centers, especially the hunger strikers, and to denounce the policy of deliberate medical neglect pursued by the occupation against sick prisoners.
Wafa news agency reported that the participants in the sit-in, which was organized in front of the headquarters of the Red Cross in Hebron, and at the invitation of the Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs Authority, Fatah movement and the Prisoner Club, raised the Palestinian flag and pictures of the prisoners on hunger strike and chanted slogans demanding support for the prisoners and support their causes.
The participants explained that this stand comes in support and support for the prisoners in the occupation prisons who are on a hunger strike to protest the crimes of the occupation against them, expressing their protest against the failure to resume the visits of the detainees' families and their families to their children, which have been suspended since March 2020.
4,600 Palestinian prisoners inside the occupation prisons face harsh detention conditions, as 1,800 of them suffer from multiple diseases due to the spread of epidemics, including about 700 prisoners who need urgent medical intervention, especially cases of cancer, kidney failure and paraplegia.