Occupied Jerusalem-SANA
Dozens of Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip participated in a vigil today in support of the two Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike, Khalil Awawda and Youssef Al-Baz.
The Palestinian Ma'an News Agency reported that the participants in the sit-down organized by the Palestinian national forces in front of the headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross raised pictures of the two prisoners, Awawda, 40, who continues his second hunger strike for the 44th day, and Al-Baz, 64, who continues his hunger and water strike for the fourth day, calling on the Red Cross to immediately intervene. to save them.
Abdullah Qandil, director of the Wa’ed Association for the Care of Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners, said that the stand comes in support of all prisoners in the occupation’s prisons, led by the two strikers, Awawda and Al-Baz, who may be martyred at any moment as a result of the occupation’s arbitrary practices against them, pointing to the need for international institutions to break their silence in the face of the occupation’s crimes against the prisoners and pressure. him to release them.
It is noteworthy that Awawda announced his first hunger strike on the third of last March and suspended it after 111 days on the twenty-first of June, but the breach by the occupation authorities of their pledges to release him prompted him to resume his strike on the second of last July.
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