20 apr 2017
A group of Israeli settlers, on Thursday afternoon, held a barbecue party outside Ofer prison, west of Ramallah, in response to the collective hunger strike lead by 1,500 Palestinian prisoners.
According to the PNN. the insulting move came in response to the hunger strike which Palestinian prisoners launched on the Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, starting 17 April, against Israeli prison policies.
The demands of the Palestinian detainees revolve around the right to have proper visits by their families, having proper health care, ending the solitary confinement, changing the inhumane way of transportation between prisons and tending to other similar basic needs issues.
For the third day of the detainees’ hunger strike, Israeli Prison Service carried out campaigns to transfer hundreds of detainees to solitary confinement in many prisons, after taking their personal belongings such as blankets and clothing.
According to the PNN. the insulting move came in response to the hunger strike which Palestinian prisoners launched on the Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, starting 17 April, against Israeli prison policies.
The demands of the Palestinian detainees revolve around the right to have proper visits by their families, having proper health care, ending the solitary confinement, changing the inhumane way of transportation between prisons and tending to other similar basic needs issues.
For the third day of the detainees’ hunger strike, Israeli Prison Service carried out campaigns to transfer hundreds of detainees to solitary confinement in many prisons, after taking their personal belongings such as blankets and clothing.
Israeli Prison Service (IPS) transferred the Palestinian hunger striking sick captive Saed Msellam to Brzlai Hospital after deterioration of his health after Wednesday midnight.
The hunger strike media committee quoted on Thursday the lawyer of Detainees and Ex-detainees Committee, Karim Ajweh, after his visit to Ashkelon Israeli jail, as saying that the IPS carried out large-scale transfers among hunger striking detainees over the past two days. Storming prisoners’ rooms and sections along with carrying out search campaigns and confiscation of captives’ properties were also reported.
The media committee also pointed out that prisoner Kamal Abu Waar was transferred to Ayalon prison in Ramleh, while detainee Samir Ghaith was taken to an unknown destination.
Nine other captives were brought to Ashkelon jail from Hadarim, Nafha, and Jalboa prisons, it added.
The hunger strike media committee quoted on Thursday the lawyer of Detainees and Ex-detainees Committee, Karim Ajweh, after his visit to Ashkelon Israeli jail, as saying that the IPS carried out large-scale transfers among hunger striking detainees over the past two days. Storming prisoners’ rooms and sections along with carrying out search campaigns and confiscation of captives’ properties were also reported.
The media committee also pointed out that prisoner Kamal Abu Waar was transferred to Ayalon prison in Ramleh, while detainee Samir Ghaith was taken to an unknown destination.
Nine other captives were brought to Ashkelon jail from Hadarim, Nafha, and Jalboa prisons, it added.
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Thursday evening kidnapped a Palestinian ex-prisoner as he passed through the Hawara military checkpoint, south of Nablus.
Speaking with PIC, eye-witnesses said the Israeli soldiers deployed at Hawara checkpoint stopped the Palestinian citizen Mootassem Tayssir Samara, 40, while he was driving in the area, on his way back home from Ramallah.
The Israeli soldiers inspected Samara’s ID before they arrested him and dragged him to an unknown destination.
Speaking with PIC, eye-witnesses said the Israeli soldiers deployed at Hawara checkpoint stopped the Palestinian citizen Mootassem Tayssir Samara, 40, while he was driving in the area, on his way back home from Ramallah.
The Israeli soldiers inspected Samara’s ID before they arrested him and dragged him to an unknown destination.
At least 1500 Palestinian detainees, held by Israel, are ongoing with their hunger strike for the fourth consecutive day, and intend to continue while more detainees are gradually joining the strike that started on April 17 th, which also marks the Palestinian Prisoners’ Day.
The media department of the Palestinian Detainees’ Committee, and the Palestinian Prisoners Society, have reported that the Israeli Prison Authority started transferring the detainees to various detention centers, since the start of the strike.
It added that many detainees have also been placed in solitary confinement, in several prisons, after the soldiers confiscated the clothes, bedsheets and belongings.
At least seventy detainees have been moved to Ramla Israeli prison; 40 of them were in Hadarim prison, and 30 in Nafha, Ramon and Asqalan.
The Israeli Prison Authority also continued to prevent lawyers from vesting with the hunger striking detainees.
Following a complaint filed with an Israeli court, the Israeli Justice
Ministry claimed it ordered the Prison Authority not to deny the striking detainees the right to visit with their families and lawyers, but the Prison Authority is still denying them this right.
The detainees presented a list of basic demands, that would ensure their rights, including the right to regular, uninterrupted visits, right to education, medical care, ending solitary confinement, ending Administrative Detention policies, allowing access to books and newspapers, and other basic rights.
The media department of the Palestinian Detainees’ Committee, and the Palestinian Prisoners Society, have reported that the Israeli Prison Authority started transferring the detainees to various detention centers, since the start of the strike.
It added that many detainees have also been placed in solitary confinement, in several prisons, after the soldiers confiscated the clothes, bedsheets and belongings.
At least seventy detainees have been moved to Ramla Israeli prison; 40 of them were in Hadarim prison, and 30 in Nafha, Ramon and Asqalan.
The Israeli Prison Authority also continued to prevent lawyers from vesting with the hunger striking detainees.
Following a complaint filed with an Israeli court, the Israeli Justice
Ministry claimed it ordered the Prison Authority not to deny the striking detainees the right to visit with their families and lawyers, but the Prison Authority is still denying them this right.
The detainees presented a list of basic demands, that would ensure their rights, including the right to regular, uninterrupted visits, right to education, medical care, ending solitary confinement, ending Administrative Detention policies, allowing access to books and newspapers, and other basic rights.
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers abducted, overnight and during earlier hours Thursday, at least nine Palestinians in various parts of the occupied West Bank, and illegally confiscated a thousand US Dollars from one home.
In a press statement, the Israeli army said the soldiers arrested nine Palestinians in the West Bank, including what it alleged, “three who participated in hostilities.”
The Hebron office of the PPS, in the southern part of the West bank, said the soldiers abducted Ahmad al-‘Omari, 63, the director of a local orphanage, after storming into his home and ransacking it, in the Tarbeeqa area, in Hebron city,
In Nablus, in the northern part of the West Bank, the soldiers invaded Balata town, east of Nablus, and abducted a student of the Najah National University, identified as Obada Jamal Dweikat.
Furthermore, the soldiers abducted an Engineer, identified as Monther Mustafa Shonnar, 26, from Nablus, after stopping him at a military roadblock west of Salfit, in the northwestern part of the West Bank.
His father, Dr. Mustafa Shonnar, said the army phoned his home, informing the family that their son has been arrested, moved to the interrogation center in Petah Tikva, and that he will be under interrogation for eight days.
It is worth mentioning that the army recently frequently invaded the Shonnar home, looking for Abada, and threatened to kill him if he doesn’t turn himself in to the army. The military did not explain why it detained him or the reason for seeking his arrest.
Also, the soldiers invaded Nour Shams refugee camp, in the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem, attacked many Palestinians while interrogating them, and abducted a young man, identified as Dia Qseido.
The soldiers also conducted extensive searches of homes, buildings and several areas in Thannaba, east of Tulkarem.
The Qalqilia office of the PPS, in the northern part of the West Bank, the soldiers continued their night invasions and violent searches of homes and property, and abducted Saji Abu Athba, 27.
Dozens of soldiers, and army vehicles, have also been deployed on the main road, and junction, between Habla town and Qalqilia.
In Jenin, in the northern part of the West Bank, the soldiers invaded Jaba’ and Fahma towns, south of the city, violently searched homes and abducted Osama Ahmad Salatna and Mohammad Canaan, after interrogating them and their families.
In Jaba’ town, south of Jenin, the soldiers searched the homes of Mahmoud Shafiq Sa’abna and Hisham Sa’id Sa’abna.
Clashes took place in the town, and the soldiers fired many live rounds, rubber-coated steel bullets and gas bombs; no injuries were reported.
It is worth mentioning that the army said it conflicted a thousand U.S. Dollars from one of the Palestinian homes, and a weapon.
In a press statement, the Israeli army said the soldiers arrested nine Palestinians in the West Bank, including what it alleged, “three who participated in hostilities.”
The Hebron office of the PPS, in the southern part of the West bank, said the soldiers abducted Ahmad al-‘Omari, 63, the director of a local orphanage, after storming into his home and ransacking it, in the Tarbeeqa area, in Hebron city,
In Nablus, in the northern part of the West Bank, the soldiers invaded Balata town, east of Nablus, and abducted a student of the Najah National University, identified as Obada Jamal Dweikat.
Furthermore, the soldiers abducted an Engineer, identified as Monther Mustafa Shonnar, 26, from Nablus, after stopping him at a military roadblock west of Salfit, in the northwestern part of the West Bank.
His father, Dr. Mustafa Shonnar, said the army phoned his home, informing the family that their son has been arrested, moved to the interrogation center in Petah Tikva, and that he will be under interrogation for eight days.
It is worth mentioning that the army recently frequently invaded the Shonnar home, looking for Abada, and threatened to kill him if he doesn’t turn himself in to the army. The military did not explain why it detained him or the reason for seeking his arrest.
Also, the soldiers invaded Nour Shams refugee camp, in the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem, attacked many Palestinians while interrogating them, and abducted a young man, identified as Dia Qseido.
The soldiers also conducted extensive searches of homes, buildings and several areas in Thannaba, east of Tulkarem.
The Qalqilia office of the PPS, in the northern part of the West Bank, the soldiers continued their night invasions and violent searches of homes and property, and abducted Saji Abu Athba, 27.
Dozens of soldiers, and army vehicles, have also been deployed on the main road, and junction, between Habla town and Qalqilia.
In Jenin, in the northern part of the West Bank, the soldiers invaded Jaba’ and Fahma towns, south of the city, violently searched homes and abducted Osama Ahmad Salatna and Mohammad Canaan, after interrogating them and their families.
In Jaba’ town, south of Jenin, the soldiers searched the homes of Mahmoud Shafiq Sa’abna and Hisham Sa’id Sa’abna.
Clashes took place in the town, and the soldiers fired many live rounds, rubber-coated steel bullets and gas bombs; no injuries were reported.
It is worth mentioning that the army said it conflicted a thousand U.S. Dollars from one of the Palestinian homes, and a weapon.
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at dawn Thursday kidnapped a young man from his home in Balata al-Balad suburb, east of Nablus city in the West Bank.
Local sources told the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) that Israeli troops aboard military vehicles stormed the suburb and kidnapped Obadah Duwaikat, a student at an-Najah University.
They explained that Israeli soldiers encircled the house of Duwaikat before raiding it and then bundled him into an armored detention vehicle and drove away.
Local sources told the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) that Israeli troops aboard military vehicles stormed the suburb and kidnapped Obadah Duwaikat, a student at an-Najah University.
They explained that Israeli soldiers encircled the house of Duwaikat before raiding it and then bundled him into an armored detention vehicle and drove away.
Israeli Minister of Defense Avigdor Lieberman recently called for a policy of non-negotiation with Palestinian hunger strikers, following the steps of former British Prime Minster Margaret Thatcher’s policy in dealing with Irish Catholic hunger strikers in 1981.
Avigdor Lieberman suggested to take the approach of Thatcher, who publicly refused to accede to the demands of IRA hunger strikers in 1981, 10 of whom died.
More than 1,000 Palestinians detained in Israeli prisons launched a massive open-ended hunger strike on Monday, issuing a list of demands ranging from better medical services to telephone access.
Some 6,500 Palestinians are currently jailed by Israeli authorities. Of those, 62 are women and 300 are minors.
Some 500 are held under administrative detention, which allows for imprisonment without charge.
Palestinian prisoners have mounted repeated hunger strikes, but rarely on such a large scale.
Barghouti’s call for the strike has given it added credibility, with the 57-year-old serving five life sentences over his role in the second Palestinian intifada.
Born in Moldova, Avigdor Lieberman is one of the only foreign ministers in the world who does not live in territory officially recognized as his own country.
Originally under suspicion over charges of money-laundering and bribery, Lieberman was formally indicted in December of 2012, on lesser charges of fraud and breach of trust.
His party was recently the focus of a corruption probe within the Israeli political spectrum, and, more recently, Lieberman’s life was threatened with an assassination attempt.
Avigdor Lieberman suggested to take the approach of Thatcher, who publicly refused to accede to the demands of IRA hunger strikers in 1981, 10 of whom died.
More than 1,000 Palestinians detained in Israeli prisons launched a massive open-ended hunger strike on Monday, issuing a list of demands ranging from better medical services to telephone access.
Some 6,500 Palestinians are currently jailed by Israeli authorities. Of those, 62 are women and 300 are minors.
Some 500 are held under administrative detention, which allows for imprisonment without charge.
Palestinian prisoners have mounted repeated hunger strikes, but rarely on such a large scale.
Barghouti’s call for the strike has given it added credibility, with the 57-year-old serving five life sentences over his role in the second Palestinian intifada.
Born in Moldova, Avigdor Lieberman is one of the only foreign ministers in the world who does not live in territory officially recognized as his own country.
Originally under suspicion over charges of money-laundering and bribery, Lieberman was formally indicted in December of 2012, on lesser charges of fraud and breach of trust.
His party was recently the focus of a corruption probe within the Israeli political spectrum, and, more recently, Lieberman’s life was threatened with an assassination attempt.
19 apr 2017
Israeli Intelligence Service released late Tuesday the elderly man Salah Fakhouri after long hours of investigation.
Family sources affirmed that Fakhouri, 64, was arrested at dawn Tuesday when Israeli Intelligence Forces violently stormed his house in the Old City in occupied Jerusalem for unknown reasons.
He was kept in al-Lud police station till afternoon where he was subjected to tough investigation, the sources added.
He was then released under the condition of returning to the police station on Wednesday for further investigation.
Fakhouri suffers many health problems including high blood pressures, diabetes, and heart disease.
Family sources affirmed that Fakhouri, 64, was arrested at dawn Tuesday when Israeli Intelligence Forces violently stormed his house in the Old City in occupied Jerusalem for unknown reasons.
He was kept in al-Lud police station till afternoon where he was subjected to tough investigation, the sources added.
He was then released under the condition of returning to the police station on Wednesday for further investigation.
Fakhouri suffers many health problems including high blood pressures, diabetes, and heart disease.
Despite being classified among prisoners whose medical condition is the worst in Israeli jails, prisoner Mansour Mouqada refuses to give up to his Israeli jailers, despite the tragic saga of events he has been living since he was arrested 15 years ago.
His brother Nimir tells the PIC reporter, “when our family asks him about his ability to smile and laugh during family visits in prison, he says it is his duty to always challenge the jailers by his smile, despite his unbearable pain.”
Nimir underlined that his brother’s condition is unbearable while the “image of Mansour in people’s minds is of him sitting on a wheelchair inside the prison’s walls, which hides under it much suffering.”
He added, “Prior to his arrest, Mansour didn’t suffer from any illness. He was arrested following a manhunt, which lasted for years. Before he was arrested, he engaged in an exchange of fire with Israeli soldiers. During his arrest in the village of Siniria in Salfit, his body received five bullets. One of these five bullets ended up in his spinal cord, pelvic and belly. It made him suffer from Hemiplegia. Parts of his stomach and intestines were damaged and half of them became plastic-made. His belly looks like a ball due to this.”
Nimir describes the situation of his brother as saying, “No one could imagine that someone in my brother’s situation would have been in jail for the last 15 years. The Israeli occupation authorities refuse his early release. If he would be released, he would spend a long time in hospital before going home as he is in desperate need for medication.”
He stresses that the suffering of Mansour is multi-layered. In addition to providing him with the needed medication on daily basis, a follow up by doctors is equally needed.
Tough stages
The family of prisoner Mouqada speaks to the PIC reporter of tough stages during his imprisonment, as his father passed away due to a car accident two years after he was arrested.
“During that time, communication with prisoners was not that easy. It took the family months to gradually deliver the news of Mansour’s father’s death to him, by first telling him that he was injured, then the family told him he passed away. This made him go into coma for 22 days.”
Mansour was shocked again when he realized that his mother has not visited him for two years after she lost her memory, due to the hardships she has gone through during her life, such as his own arrest and her husband’s death. He started asking his family to bring his mother to him to see her in the next visitation. They told him that in case she comes, she would not recognize him because she no longer recognizes anyone.
Mansour’s brother stressed that his mother’s loss of memory was the straw that broke the camel’s back for Mansour, as he started saying, “I receive bad news, one after another.”
No family visitation
The wife of Mansour speaks of another form of suffering he is subjected to. He has been deprived of seeing his own son, Raid, 21, for the last three years. Every time he reaches the prison’s gates, the Israeli authorities send him back. The situation is the same for Mansour’s bigger brother who has also been deprived of seeing Mansour since he was arrested.
The same goes to his brother Nimir who is allowed to visit Mansour once a year. Mansour’s two daughters got married while he is in jail. Add to this, the Israeli humiliating measures by searching family members during family visits to prisons and the continuing banning of some family members from visiting him for ‘security reasons.’
The family and siblings of Mansour stress that the level of solidarity with Palestinian prisoners is below expectation and this leaves a negative impact on the families of prisoners and makes them feel sad.
The family concluded by saying, “We have sick prisoners in jails whose condition is really bad. They are experiencing agonizing pain. Silence is no longer acceptable.”
His brother Nimir tells the PIC reporter, “when our family asks him about his ability to smile and laugh during family visits in prison, he says it is his duty to always challenge the jailers by his smile, despite his unbearable pain.”
Nimir underlined that his brother’s condition is unbearable while the “image of Mansour in people’s minds is of him sitting on a wheelchair inside the prison’s walls, which hides under it much suffering.”
He added, “Prior to his arrest, Mansour didn’t suffer from any illness. He was arrested following a manhunt, which lasted for years. Before he was arrested, he engaged in an exchange of fire with Israeli soldiers. During his arrest in the village of Siniria in Salfit, his body received five bullets. One of these five bullets ended up in his spinal cord, pelvic and belly. It made him suffer from Hemiplegia. Parts of his stomach and intestines were damaged and half of them became plastic-made. His belly looks like a ball due to this.”
Nimir describes the situation of his brother as saying, “No one could imagine that someone in my brother’s situation would have been in jail for the last 15 years. The Israeli occupation authorities refuse his early release. If he would be released, he would spend a long time in hospital before going home as he is in desperate need for medication.”
He stresses that the suffering of Mansour is multi-layered. In addition to providing him with the needed medication on daily basis, a follow up by doctors is equally needed.
Tough stages
The family of prisoner Mouqada speaks to the PIC reporter of tough stages during his imprisonment, as his father passed away due to a car accident two years after he was arrested.
“During that time, communication with prisoners was not that easy. It took the family months to gradually deliver the news of Mansour’s father’s death to him, by first telling him that he was injured, then the family told him he passed away. This made him go into coma for 22 days.”
Mansour was shocked again when he realized that his mother has not visited him for two years after she lost her memory, due to the hardships she has gone through during her life, such as his own arrest and her husband’s death. He started asking his family to bring his mother to him to see her in the next visitation. They told him that in case she comes, she would not recognize him because she no longer recognizes anyone.
Mansour’s brother stressed that his mother’s loss of memory was the straw that broke the camel’s back for Mansour, as he started saying, “I receive bad news, one after another.”
No family visitation
The wife of Mansour speaks of another form of suffering he is subjected to. He has been deprived of seeing his own son, Raid, 21, for the last three years. Every time he reaches the prison’s gates, the Israeli authorities send him back. The situation is the same for Mansour’s bigger brother who has also been deprived of seeing Mansour since he was arrested.
The same goes to his brother Nimir who is allowed to visit Mansour once a year. Mansour’s two daughters got married while he is in jail. Add to this, the Israeli humiliating measures by searching family members during family visits to prisons and the continuing banning of some family members from visiting him for ‘security reasons.’
The family and siblings of Mansour stress that the level of solidarity with Palestinian prisoners is below expectation and this leaves a negative impact on the families of prisoners and makes them feel sad.
The family concluded by saying, “We have sick prisoners in jails whose condition is really bad. They are experiencing agonizing pain. Silence is no longer acceptable.”
The Israeli occupation authorities on Wednesday sentenced the Palestinian MP Ahmed Atoun to a renewable four-month prison-term, with neither charge nor trial.
MP Atoun was kidnapped by the Israeli forces from his family home in Ramallah on April 12. He has also been banned from Occupied Jerusalem, where he was born and raised, for over seven years.
MP Atoun has been held for a total of 10 years in Israeli lock-ups and sentenced to administrative detention on several earlier occasions.
Palestinian MPs from Occupied Jerusalem have been frequently chased down by the Israeli forces and sent to jail under the security pretext.
MP Atoun was kidnapped by the Israeli forces from his family home in Ramallah on April 12. He has also been banned from Occupied Jerusalem, where he was born and raised, for over seven years.
MP Atoun has been held for a total of 10 years in Israeli lock-ups and sentenced to administrative detention on several earlier occasions.
Palestinian MPs from Occupied Jerusalem have been frequently chased down by the Israeli forces and sent to jail under the security pretext.
A mass abduction sweep was carried out by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at predawn Wednesday, sparking clashes with Palestinian protesters.
The Israeli occupation army claimed responsibility for the abduction of eight Palestinians from the West Bank and Occupied Jerusalem on claims of involvement in anti-occupation activities.
Two Palestinians—Khalil Dandan and Maher Afana—were kidnapped by the Israeli forces from Jerusalem’s town of Abu Dis while Tawfiq Afana was kidnapped from al-Maliha village.
At the same time, 17-year-olds Kusay Abu Hashem and Muayed Abu Maria, along with Mustafa Abidou, were kidnapped by the Israeli forces from the southern occupied West Bank province of al-Khalil, activist Mohamed Awad told the PIC.
Ahmed Abu Hashem, aged 50, was also summoned to questioning by the occupation soldiers, who wreaked havoc on his family home.
Meanwhile, clashes flared up in Nablus shortly after seven Israeli military patrols stormed the city at the crack of dawn and scoured residential neighborhoods, most notably Rafidia, to the west.
Another round of violent clashes rocked Qalqilya after the IOF stormed the city and carried out arbitrary combing operations.
The Israeli army attacked the Palestinian anti-occupation youth with randomly-unleashed spates of teargas canisters, resulting in several suffocation cases.
The Israeli occupation army claimed responsibility for the abduction of eight Palestinians from the West Bank and Occupied Jerusalem on claims of involvement in anti-occupation activities.
Two Palestinians—Khalil Dandan and Maher Afana—were kidnapped by the Israeli forces from Jerusalem’s town of Abu Dis while Tawfiq Afana was kidnapped from al-Maliha village.
At the same time, 17-year-olds Kusay Abu Hashem and Muayed Abu Maria, along with Mustafa Abidou, were kidnapped by the Israeli forces from the southern occupied West Bank province of al-Khalil, activist Mohamed Awad told the PIC.
Ahmed Abu Hashem, aged 50, was also summoned to questioning by the occupation soldiers, who wreaked havoc on his family home.
Meanwhile, clashes flared up in Nablus shortly after seven Israeli military patrols stormed the city at the crack of dawn and scoured residential neighborhoods, most notably Rafidia, to the west.
Another round of violent clashes rocked Qalqilya after the IOF stormed the city and carried out arbitrary combing operations.
The Israeli army attacked the Palestinian anti-occupation youth with randomly-unleashed spates of teargas canisters, resulting in several suffocation cases.
The Palestinian female detainees announced their decision to join the mass hunger strike that has swept Israeli jails for the third consecutive day.
According to the Prisoners’ and Ex-Prisoners’ Commission, a number of Palestinian female inmates returned prison meals in solidarity with the male hunger strikers in Israeli jails.
Lawyer Hiba Muslaha, from the Prisoners’ Commission, said following a visit to Hasharon lock-up that 58 female detainees held in the prison decided to return meals every 10 days.
The detainees vowed to escalate protest moves in case the Israeli prison authorities do not meet their demands.
Some 1,500 detainees started a mass hunger strike in Israeli jails as of Monday in protest at the torture and crackdowns they have been made to endure at the hands of the Israeli wardens and to demand restoration of rights that were withdrawn from them in addition to an end to solitary confinement and administrative detention.
According to the Prisoners’ and Ex-Prisoners’ Commission, a number of Palestinian female inmates returned prison meals in solidarity with the male hunger strikers in Israeli jails.
Lawyer Hiba Muslaha, from the Prisoners’ Commission, said following a visit to Hasharon lock-up that 58 female detainees held in the prison decided to return meals every 10 days.
The detainees vowed to escalate protest moves in case the Israeli prison authorities do not meet their demands.
Some 1,500 detainees started a mass hunger strike in Israeli jails as of Monday in protest at the torture and crackdowns they have been made to endure at the hands of the Israeli wardens and to demand restoration of rights that were withdrawn from them in addition to an end to solitary confinement and administrative detention.
Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails are waging a mass hunger strike for the third consecutive day Wednesday to protest their dire detention conditions.
The mass hunger strike, which started as of April 17, comes in response to the mistreatment Palestinians have been subjected to in Israeli lock-ups.
Some 1,500 prisoners joined the hunger strike to speak up against the Israeli visit-bans, medical neglect, solitary confinement, and administrative detention.
The hunger strike follow-up committee warned of a series of punitive measures opted for by the Israeli prison service (IPS) so as to crack down on the detainees and force them to throw in the towel.
According to the committee, lawyers have been banned from visiting the hunger strikers to document the violations perpetrated in Israeli jails.
IPS in Jalama lock-up prevented lawyer Jawad Boulos from visiting prisoners Marwan al-Barghouthi and Nasser Aweis who were transferred from Hadarim jail on the first day of the hunger strike.
IPS further banned the lawyers from visiting the hunger strikers in Ofer and Gilboa prisons.
IPS further subjected the hunger strikers in Ofer jail to strip searches and robbed them of all their belongings, except for the prison uniforms and dirty blankets.
A number of sick detainees held in the Israeli Ashkelon jail also joined the mass hunger strike. In response to the move, IPS seized their clothes, blankets, and electric kit.
Reports have, meanwhile, emerged on the transfer of 80 prisoners from Hadarim prison to Nafha and Ashkelon lock-ups.
The lawyers announced their decision to boycott the Israeli courts starting Wednesday.
The mass hunger strike, which started as of April 17, comes in response to the mistreatment Palestinians have been subjected to in Israeli lock-ups.
Some 1,500 prisoners joined the hunger strike to speak up against the Israeli visit-bans, medical neglect, solitary confinement, and administrative detention.
The hunger strike follow-up committee warned of a series of punitive measures opted for by the Israeli prison service (IPS) so as to crack down on the detainees and force them to throw in the towel.
According to the committee, lawyers have been banned from visiting the hunger strikers to document the violations perpetrated in Israeli jails.
IPS in Jalama lock-up prevented lawyer Jawad Boulos from visiting prisoners Marwan al-Barghouthi and Nasser Aweis who were transferred from Hadarim jail on the first day of the hunger strike.
IPS further banned the lawyers from visiting the hunger strikers in Ofer and Gilboa prisons.
IPS further subjected the hunger strikers in Ofer jail to strip searches and robbed them of all their belongings, except for the prison uniforms and dirty blankets.
A number of sick detainees held in the Israeli Ashkelon jail also joined the mass hunger strike. In response to the move, IPS seized their clothes, blankets, and electric kit.
Reports have, meanwhile, emerged on the transfer of 80 prisoners from Hadarim prison to Nafha and Ashkelon lock-ups.
The lawyers announced their decision to boycott the Israeli courts starting Wednesday.
