Mothers of prisoners along with Palestinian youths closed on Monday morning a number of main entrances to Ramallah city protesting the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) weak support for the prisoners who have been on hunger strike for 29 consecutive days.
The PIC reporter said that for the second day in a row a group of angry Palestinian youths closed a number of main entrances to Ramallah while the mothers closed the main street of Qalandiya which links between Occupied Jerusalem and Ramallah to express their rejection of the weak official and popular support for the striking prisoners.
These steps come as the strike enters its 29th day and in the absence of any official action by the PA to support the prisoners whose lives are in danger.
A group of angry youths closed on Sunday a number of Ramallah entrances but they were dispersed by the PA security forces that later reopened the entrances.
The bodyguards of the PA president Mahmoud Abbas attacked on Sunday the families and mothers of prisoners who organized a march to the Mausoleum of the late Palestinian president Yasser Arafat in Ramallah.
A state of tension is currently prevailing among the Palestinian people in view of the lack of solidarity with the hunger striking prisoners which may ignite popular anger at the PA and the Israeli occupation.
