The newly released prisoner Ali al-Haj revealed in an interview with the PIC reporter that Palestinian prisoners have finalized their preparations for the biggest hunger strike in Israeli jails.
Al-Haj 35 was released from Israeli jails two days ago after spending a 13-year sentence for being affiliated with Palestinian resistance.
Speaking to the PIC reporter he stressed that Palestinian prisoners are scheduled to launch a collective hunger strike in all Israeli jails on April 17 in protest against their difficult detention conditions.
The strike is being organized by Fatah Movement’s high-ranking member Marwan Barghouthi who was sentenced in 2004 to five consecutive life terms and is being held in a prison in southern Israel.
The prisoners’ demands include improving their detention conditions ending night raids and strip search and providing telephone communication with their families al-Haj pointed out.
He also stressed the urgent need to increase the popular support to the prisoners’ planned strike and legitimate demands.
The Israeli Prison Service tried over the past few days to manipulate over the prisoners’ demands he added.
The hunger strike in scheduled to begin on 17 April commemorated each year as the Palestinian Prisoners’ Day.
