Dozens of Palestinians take part in stand in Tulkarm in support of prisoners in Israeli jails

OCCUPIED AL-QUDS, Aug.16, (ST)- Dozens of Palestinians participated this evening in a stand in the city of Tulkarm in support of the prisoners in the Israeli prisons, especially the prisoner Khalil Awawdeh, who continues his hunger strike for the 157th day, amid very critical health conditions.

Wafa News Agency reported that the participants in the stand, which was organized by the Palestinian national forces in front of the headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross, raised the Palestinian flag and pictures of the detainee Awawdeh and banners calling for putting pressure on the occupation to immediately release him and all prisoners.

The coordinator of the national action factions in Tulkarm, Faisal Salameh, said that the occupation bears full responsibility for the lives of the prisoners who are suffering from very difficult conditions, and for the increase in the number of poisoners wishing to join the open hunger strike until they attain their freedom and their immediate release.

He appealed to the international community to put pressure on this occupation to implement the international charters issued by the Council Security and the United Nations and activating humanitarian decisions on prisoners.

It is noteworthy that Awawdeh, 40, from the city of Hebron in the West Bank, announced his first hunger strike on the 3rd of last March and suspended it after 111 days on the 21st of June, but the breach by the occupation authorities of their pledges to release him prompted him to resume his strike on the 2nd of last July.

Basma Qaddour