Over 52,500 Palestinians including 179 children are being held in the occupation’s jails

OCCUPIED AL-QUDS, Oct.3, (ST)- Dozens of Palestinians have participated in a solidarity stand organized in the city of Tulkarm in the West Bank in support of the prisoners in light of the tragic conditions they face in Israeli occupation’s jails.

Wafa News Agency reported that the participants in the stand that was organized today by the Palestinian National Forces outside the doors of the International Committee of the Red Cross office in Tulkarm raised Palestinian flags and pictures of a number of sick prisoners and the prisoner Kayed Al-Fasfous, who has been on a hunger strike for 62 days.

The participants affirmed their solidarity with the prisoners and continuity of supporting their just cause in the face of the violations of the occupation authorities, which continue with their oppressive and arbitrary practices, most notably deliberate medical negligence, to undermine their heroic steadfastness.

The participants called on human rights institutions and the international community to alleviate the suffering of thousands of prisoners, and to support them by unveiling the occupation’s crimes against them and raising their voices loudly in all international forums to pressure the occupation to release them and hold it accountable for its violations.

In a similar context, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club reported that the occupation has arrested more than 53,000 Palestinians since the outbreak of the Jerusalem uprising in October 2015, including about 9,200 children and 1,261 women and girls, indicating that more than 52,500 Palestinians including 39 female prisoners and 179 children are being held in the occupation’s jails.

The club pointed out that since 2015 the occupation authorities escalated their crimes against them and their families in a failed attempt to undermine their struggle in which the Palestinians seek to liberate their land and restore their legitimate rights.

It indicated that the prisoners in the occupation detention centers continue their struggle against its arbitrary measures with all the tools they have, the most prominent of which is the hunger strike, whether through collective strikes that they have waged since 1968, or individual strikes that have witnessed an escalation since late 2011.

Basma Qaddour