Palestinian Detainees to Go On Hunger Strike

Local Editor

"Israeli" violations and attacks against Palestinian detainees in "Israeli" prisons have been escalating lately amid terrible living conditions that lack the most basic needs of living.
Approximately 7500 Palestinian political prisons held by Israel will start a hunger strike on Saturday demanding "Israel" to stop its violations and improve living conditions.

Riyadh Al Ashqar, head of the Media Department at the Ministry of Detainee in Gaza, called on the Palestinian people to act in solidarity with the detainees and to form a lobbying power that boosts the detainees in achieving their legitimate rights, the IMEMC reported.

Al Ashqar said that the detainees face unimaginable suffering in "Israeli" prisons, detention camps and interrogation centers, and added that "Israel" is readying to use ultimate force against the detainees should they hold a strike.

Dozens of detainees were recently wounded after being attacked by the soldiers who broke into their rooms sabotaging their stuff and searching it.

Al Ashqar demanded international human rights groups, mainly the International Red Cross, to intervene and to send probe committees that would observe the illegal "Israeli" measures and attacks against the detainees.