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Prisoner Hroub continues his hunger strike for the 36th day in a row

Tuesday 26-March-2013

NABLUS (PIC)– The prisoner Yunis Hroub continues his hunger strike for the 36th day in a row protesting at his administrative detention since last July PPS confirmed adding that he refused the IPS’ offer to deport him in return for his release.

The Israeli offer to deport the prisoner came in light of the Israeli plan to pressure the hunger strikers the PPS coordinator in al-Khalil Amjad Najjar stated calling on international human rights organization to intervene to stop the Israeli crimes against the Palestinian prisoners.

He also said the PPS intends to launch support campaign with the administrative detainee Hroub noting that Hroub was released in 2008 after spending 6 years and half year in Israeli jails.

In the same context the coordinator of the PPS in Qalqilya said after a visit to the prisoner’s family that the health of prisoner Osman Asaad Younis has deteriorated.

During the visit the prisoner’s sister Manal Younis expressed her worries towards her brother’s health deterioration noting that he was subjected to an Israeli assassination attempt during his visit to his mother in Rafidia Hospital in 2003 where he underwent several surgeries after his arrest led to the removal of large parts of his stomach and intestines.

Since then the prisoner who is sentenced to 4 life terms has suffered severe pains preventing him from living a normal life.

For her part the administrative detainee’s mother urged the international human rights institutions to intervene to pressure the Israeli authorities to save her son.

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