Schending mensenrechten Palestijnse gevangenen

Human Rights for Palestinian Prisoners

Dear reader,


I want you to take a minute and put your mind on the latest occurrences in
Israeli prisons. On Sunday, August 15th 3500 Palestinian prisoners in 4
different Israeli facilities launched an open-ended hunger strike in protest
of the inhumane conditions they are being held in. Until today (August 23rd)
they managed to endure the hunger strike although facing severe punishment
and torture by the Israeli prison personnel. The number of prisoners denying
their food rose to 7500 yet and more are to join the strike accompanied by
demonstrations in various Palestinian cities.

All the prisoners demands are quite easy to be met and are exclusively
demands to improve inhumane conditions, apply human rights and to stop
methods of humiliation and torture by the prison staff like severe or
arbitrary beating. The prisoners also demand to allow relatives to visit,
installation of a public phone in the prisons, to stop forced strippings,
surprise midnight searches, extended solitary confinements and harassment of
visitors. They also consider the medical negligence and the unsanitary
surroundings intolerable.


The claims of Israeli officials that the hunger strike threatens their
security are ridiculous and misleading. All the prisoners ask for is to
improve the conditions in the prisons, but the Israelis remain unwilling to
give in to the demands. The Israeli Public Security Minister Tzachi Hanegbi
was cited he would rather "let them starve to death"

All the striking prisoners imposed the asceticism on themselves to live only
on fluids and salt. Israel applied draconian punishments in reaction to the
hunger strike. The water supply was cut and all the salt was taken away. For
the prisoners there is no possibility to wash and there is drinking water
only once in 3 days, which is now the only thing they have left to live on.
Also radios, pens, newspapers, cigarettes and even personal items were
confiscated. The incidents of torture (like indiscriminate beating)
increased since the launch of the strike. All the family visits were banned
and in some prisons the prisoners' clothes were taken away.

You can contribute to the cause of human rights for Palestinian prisoners
just by forwarding this message to everybody you know to help spread the
word about some of the uncountable crimes committed on the Palestinian
people. Forwarding this message will actually make a contribution because
way too few people, especially outside of Palestine, know about the torture
Palestinian prisoners go through every day


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