30 Palestinian prisoners continue their hunger strike under the slogan “Our decision is freedom. Our strike is freedom” 

A new battle is being waged by Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli occupation’s jails, where 30 of them continue their hunger strike for the second day under the slogan “Our decision is freedom. Our strike is freedom,” despite the danger to their lives and repression, abuse and unilateral isolation, as part of a program that they will implement in stages in defense of the Palestinian people, their just cause, which the occupation is trying to obliterate, in violation of UN resolutions and laws.

The prisoners asserted in a message conveyed by the Palestinian Prisoners Club a few days ago their intention to move forward in the battle of honor and dignity and said, “We are the sons of the earth..We are the comrades of Nasser Abu Hamid, who once again exposed, with his pain and illness, the reality of the fascist occupation… with confidence and anger we say… and the most important of those who believe.” Our arrest will turn us into a wreck, for wherever we find an area of struggle, we open the path, realizing what awaits us of repression, abuse, isolation, confiscation of our clothes and pictures of our children, and putting us in cells empty of everything except our bodies and our pain… Constant searches… Periodic movements and we can barely breathe.”

In a statement to the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA), Amjad Al-Najjar, the spokesman for the Prisoners’ Club, said that the hunger strike of the 30 prisoners reveals the depth of suffering, pain and oppression experienced by the prisoners by depriving them of the most basic necessities of life, pointing out that there is a state of tension inside the prisons in light of the escalation of the practices of the Israeli jailer. abuse of prisoners.

 He added that 50 prisoners will join the strike next Thursday to compel the occupation to stop all its arbitrary measures.

The Member of the Political Bureau of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the liberated captive, Maryam Abu Daqqa, declated that the Palestinian people support the prisoners in their struggle steps against the occupation through mass demonstrations and activities to draw the attention of the silent international community to their suffering and to the policy of slow killing and physical and psychological torture practiced by the occupation against the prisoners who will be freed and dignity despite the criminal occupation.

For his part, Mahmoud Khalaf, a member of the Central Committee of the Democratic Front, called for the internationalization of the issue of prisoners and for raising it in all international institutions and exposing the practices of the occupation against them.

The head of the International Commission to Support the Rights of the Palestinian People, Salah Abdel Al-Aty, affirmed that the occupation violates all international laws and conventions related to the treatment of prisoners.

Abdel Al-Aty indicated that the prisoners live in harsh detention conditions and are subjected to all kinds of physical and psychological torture, calling on the United Nations Human Rights Council and the International Criminal Court to open an immediate investigation into the crimes committed by the Israeli occupation against the prisoners.

Basma Qaddour