Nearly 1,000 detainees at all prisons in Israel launched the hunger strike 'to protest the aggression of the prison administration'.
Nearly 1,000 detainees at all prisons in Israel launched the hunger strike "to protest the aggression of the prison administration".Family of a Palestinian resistance member mourns his killing by Israeli forces in occupiedWest Bank on August 17, 2023.
Hundreds of Palestinians held by Israel started an indefinite hunger strike, a human rights organisation has said. Nearly 1,000 detainees from all prisons in Israel launched the hunger strike at 7 pm local time"to protest the aggression of the prison administration", the director of the Palestinian Prisoners Press Office, Ahmed al Kudra, said in a statement on Thursday.He asked Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank to hold demonstrations to protest the"brutal" attack on prisoners.
Tensions broke out after the Negev prison administration in southern Israel raided the third and fourth sections of the prison and transferred detainees to another area, according to a separate joint statement by human rights organisations.There are around 5,000 Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails, according to Palestinian figures, including at least 1,200 held without charge or trial.
Palestinians jailed by Israel have for years used protests to demand better living conditions and an end to indefinite detentions.
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