Occupied Jerusalem-SANA
Dozens of Palestinians, during a sit-in in the city of Hebron in the West Bank, called on the international community, human rights and humanitarian institutions, the International Red Cross and the World Health Organization to urgently intervene to save the lives of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli occupation prisons, especially the sick and those on hunger strike.
Wafa Agency stated that the participants in the sit-in in front of the International Committee of the Red Cross headquarters in Ein Sarah, central Hebron, raised Palestinian flags and pictures of the hunger strikers, stressing that the Palestinian people stand with their prisoners in their just humanitarian cause and in light of the violations and brutal practices they are subjected to by the Israeli occupation. Amid deliberate medical neglect against them, especially the sick prisoners Iyad Hrebat, Mansour Muqadi, Fouad Al-Shobaki and Nasser Al-Shawish
The director of the Prisoners' Affairs Authority in Hebron, Ibrahim Najajrah, confirmed that today's stand is in solidarity with the 14 prisoners who are on hunger strike, who are suffering from difficult conditions that threaten their lives in the occupation prisons.
About 5,300 Palestinian prisoners inside Israeli prisons face harsh detention conditions, including about 550 prisoners who need urgent medical intervention, while fourteen Palestinian prisoners continue their hunger strike to protest against the continuous Israeli crimes against the prisoners.