Dozens Gather outside ICRC in Damascus to Express Solidarity with Palestinian Prisoners’ Hunger Strike

The Syrian Arab Popular Committee for Supporting Palestinian People and Resisting Zionist scheme has organized a solidarity stand with Palestinian prisoners, who have gone on hunger strike in Israeli jails.

The stand was held Tuesday outside the office of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Damascus with the participation of the visiting delegation of National commission for supporting Arab resistance and resisting normalization with the Zionist entity in Tunisia and Arab Nation League, according to the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA).

 The agency clarified that Secretary-General of the Arab Nation League Hala al-As’ad read a statement during which she asserted that the hunger strike is one of the forms of resistance and national struggle against Israeli occupation authority’s violation of occupied Arab lands.

She called on world humanitarian organizations to act against Zionist entity’s practices towards Palestinians.

SJU backs Palestinian prisoners  

Yesterday, Syrian Journalists Union announced its support for the Palestinian prisoners’ hunger strike, stressing that Zionist entity practices state terrorism and turns a deaf ear to the international community’s humanitarian calls.

“Heroes, who have been able to confront occupier outside jails, are now able to go ahead with their confrontation and to achieve the goals of the hunger strike,” the statement said.      

On April 17, hundreds of Palestinians started an open hunger strike in protest of occupation authority’s practice of detentions without trial that has been applied against thousands since the 1980s.

The hunger striking prisoners’ demands include: an end to the transfer of Palestinian prisoners from the occupied Palestinian territory (OPT) into prisons in “Israel”; regular family visits; proper medical care; an end to Israel’s practice of detaining Palestinians without charge or trial in so-called administrative detentions; and stopping the use of solitary confinement.

Basma Qaddour