Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails started a hunger strike on September 27th, 2011. Every day, the more and more prisoners are joining. Their health is deteriorating due to the hunger strike, and prison authorities are not providing necessary medical checks.
The Palestinian prisoners have made several key demands, some of which are listed below:
- End the abusive use of isolation;
- End restrictions on University education in the prisons;
- End the denial of books and newspapers;
- End the shackling to and from meetings with lawyers and family members;
- End the excessive use of fines as punishment;
- And ultimately end all forms of collective punishment, including the refusal of family visits, night searches of prisoners’ cells, and the denial of basic health treatment.
For more info https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=231330736923906
General strike was declared in West Bank to take place on Wednesday October 12th, in solidarity with and support to the prisoners strike. Many sit-in tents were set up in different Palestinian cities. This week events:
- Tuesday, 11/10/2011 protest in front of Ofer prison – Rally at 12 am-meeting point “Dwar Al sa’a) Ramallah’s city center- a call for lawyers to boycott all military courts on the same day.
- Wednesday, 12/10/2011 general strike in all Palestinian cities.
- On Friday, 14/10/2011 public demos in all cities.
- Daily sit-ins at the Red Cross centers (start at 11am)
If you can’t join those actions, try to organize ones in your home country. In Addition, here is a simple action you can take to support: Hunger strike for one day. Wednesday 12.10.2011.
All freedom supporters around the world are called to join the prisoners with one day hunger strike, on Wednesday October 12th, when they will have entered their 16th day of hunger strike.
If you are joining, declare it, this will be one way that your voice and support might reach the prisoners and their families and give them moral support, write on your Facebook wall, twitter feed, blog or wherever you wish “On 12.10.11, I will be on hunger strike in support of Palestinian prisoners’ hunger strike since September, 27th”
يوم 12.10.11 انا مضرب\ة عن الطعام دعماً للأسرى الفلسطينيين، المضربين عن الطعام منذ 27 أيلول
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October 10, 2011 at 5:30 pm
Would certainly not prevent you from reading poetry.
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October 10, 2011 at 5:59 pm
12.10.11, I’m on hunger strike in support of Palestinian prisoners’ hunger strike since September, 27th
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October 10, 2011 at 7:32 pm
This is a very helpful appeal. There are 6000-7000 political prisoners being held by Israel, and by now I think the large majority must have joined the strike. In case anyone wants to know a few more of the Palestinian prisoners’ complaints and demands…..
Stop humiliating treatment of families when they come to visit.
Stop violent attacks, including large amounts of tear gas, on the prisoners’ rooms.
Stop crowding prisoners several in one room, so that there’ll be rooms available for prisoners forced into solitary confinement.
Stop moving prisoners from one prison to another.
And especially, stop denying urgent medical treatment … one man who has been a prisoner for about 35 years is in serious condition, lapsing in and out of coma.
(I’m a volunteer editor with IMEMC–International Middle EAst Media Center, http://www.imemc.org–and have edited several news items on this issue. On Saturday evening in Ramallah I saw a large march on a main street in support of the prisoners; people of all ages taking part, including middle-aged women in hijab.)
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October 12, 2011 at 6:58 am
I share this post on deviantart
All the best
Edward – Roma
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October 12, 2011 at 6:59 am
here the link: http://quadraro.deviantart.com/art/Palestinian-prisoners-262981890
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April 18, 2012 at 7:36 am
Aw, this was an extremely good post. Taking a few minutes and actual effort to make a really good article… but what can I say… I hesitate a lot and don’t manage to get anything done.
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