Jerusalemite MPs facing exile go on hunger strike in solidarity with prisoners
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25-9-2010
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- The Jerusalemite MPs threatened with exile on Saturday morning went on hunger strike at the Red Cross headquarters in occupied Jerusalem as a step of solidarity with the Palestinian prisoners who suffer from bad incarceration conditions in Israeli jails.
Lawmaker Ahmed Atton, one of the hunger strikers, said he and the other officials took this step in response to the call made by the prisoners on participating in a day of anger against the Israeli violations committed against them in prison.
Director of prisoners' families committee Amjad Abu Assab said that the hunger strike would take place simultaneously with a picket by families of prisoners in the morning at the Red Cross headquarters in Jerusalem.
In a related context, director of Ahrar center for prisoners' studies Fouad Al-Khafsh stated that the news reports that said Palestinian prisoners would hold general hunger strike in Israeli jails on Saturday were not true.
Khafsh added that the leadership of Palestinian prisoners did not announce in a statement that there would be a hunger strike on this day and called for necessarily taking caution when reporting about issues related to prisoners.
He also called on all concerned parties to form a lobby in order to agree on holding a series of events in solidarity with the prisoners.
For his part, information director of the ministry of prisoners Riyadh Al-Ashqar called in a statement to the Palestinian information center (PIC) on the Palestinian people in Gaza to participate in the events held for the support of prisoners so as to alleviate some of their suffering in Israeli jails.
He invited the Gazans to take part in the sit-in tent to be opened on Saturday in the Unknown Soldier plaza in Gaza in solidarity with the prisoners.
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