Palestinian hunger strikers transferred
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SEVERAL dozen hunger-striking Palestinians have been transferred from their cells to special wings in Israeli prisons for additional medical supervision.
After 31 days, 843 prisoners are still on a hunger strike, said Israel Prison Service spokesman, Assaf Librati, yesterday.
The prisoners, jailed for offenses linked to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, seek better conditions, including more family visits. Israel refuses to negotiate.
Librati refused to provide details about strike organizer Marwan Barghouti, the best-known prisoner, who is considered a possible future Palestinian leader and who is said to be refusing even water.
“It means very basic care, and if a doctor feels (a prisoner) should go to the hospital, it’s done immediately, in an ambulance,” said Librati. He said two prisoners have been hospitalized.
Palestinians in the West Bank staged protests against what they perceive as indifference by the international community toward the hunger strikers.
Yesterday activists and relatives of prisoners blocked the entrance to a United Nations compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah for two hours.
“We came here to deliver a message that the UN needs to play its role in protecting our sons who are dying in Israeli jails,” said Majdi Ziadeh, the father of a prisoner.
Israel holds about 6,500 Palestinian security prisoners for offenses ranging from stone-throwing and membership in organizations outlawed by Israel.
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