The longest-serving Palestinian prisoner Kareem Younis said on Wednesday on the 38th day of the Freedom and Dignity hunger strike that the prisoners will take escalating steps soon.
The media committee of the strike said that the majority of the prisoners suffer from a sharp decline in weight and blood pressure as well as vomiting and bleeding.
The committee pointed to the repeated fainting and convulsions among the prisoners adding that many of them have sustained skin diseases due to lack of vitamins in their bodies.
Younis who has been detained for 35 years in Israeli jails said in statements to the lawyer Tamim Younis after he visited him that the hunger striking prisoners will stop drinking water and salt soon as a starting point of the escalating steps they will take.
He pointed out that the Israel Prison Service tried several times to convince them to suspend their hunger strike in exchange for discussing their demands later but they categorically rejected. The prisoners are determined to go on with the strike until the achievement of their demands he added.
For its part the National Committee to Support the Freedom and Dignity Strike called upon the Palestinian citizens to be present in the solidarity tents in all provinces on Wednesday at 11:00 am and to launch night demonstrations at 8:00 pm.
The hunger strikers mainly demand an end to the policies of administrative detention solitary confinement denial of family visits and medical negligence.
