Dozens of citizens participated on Wednesday in a solidarity rally with the prisoner Jibril al-Zubaidi in particular and all prisoners in the Israeli occupation prisons in general. Zubaidi has been on hunger strike for the 19th consecutive day Wednesday rejecting his administrative detention.
The Prisoners Affairs and Ex-prisoners Authority the Prisoners Club the Popular Committee for Releasing Prisoners and relevant institutions invited people to participate in this rally. The participants raised pictures of Zubeidi and other prisoners especially the sick ones in front of the Red Cross office in Jenin and chanted slogans condemning the occupation policy against them holding it fully responsible for the prisoners’ lives.
In their speeches the speakers warned of the repercussions of the continued failure to respond to the hunger-striking prisoner’s demands for freedom and the suspension of the administrative detention policy. They also refer to the psychological physical and health restrictions that the prisoners experience while the violations of their rights are increasing.
The speakers stressed the need to put pressure on the occupation to allow the existence of a neutral committee that supervises giving the coronavirus vaccine to the prisoners for fear that the occupation authorities may conduct experiments on their bodies as happened previously.
The participants handed the Red Cross delegate a protest note against the arbitrary practices against the prisoners and demanded the release of Zubaidi who was previously detained for 12 years.
Meanwhile the Israeli prisons service transferred the prisoner Mahmoud Abu Kharbish 54 who has been detained for 33 years to solitary confinement in Raymon prison.
The Prisoner Club said in a statement on Wednesday that Kharbish who is originally from Jericho city is sentenced to life imprisonment and he is one of the oldest-serving prisoners who was arrested before the signing of the Oslo Agreement.
It added that Kharbish suffers from many health problems resulting from the long detention conditions and the accompanying abuse policies especially medical negligence.
Kharbish is married and has a daughter. He lost his father while in prison. His mother could not obtain a permit to visit him for the past five years.
