50 leaders of the Palestinian prisoners movement in Israeli jails announced on Wednesday that they will join the Freedom and Dignity hunger strike which has been waged by more than 1500 prisoners for the 17th day on Thursday.
Abdulrahman Shadid director of the prisoners’ information office and a member of the prisoners committee of the national and Islamic forces said during a press conference held in Gaza and Ramallah on Wednesday that 50 Palestinian prisoners from various Palestinian factions decided to join the strike.
Shadid who is an ex-prisoner affirmed that the retaliatory measures launched by the Israel Prison Service (IPS) have recently escalated against the prisoners in general and the strikers in particular describing what is happening as a “war on prisoners”.
He called on the Palestinian people to stand for the prisoners adding that the new prisoners who decided to join the strike affirmed that they will not stand idly toward the IPS measures and that the strike will be broken only through a national agreement.
