Dozens of Palestinians on Monday evening participated in a vigil staged outside the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem city in support of the hunger-striking prisoners in Israeli jails.
The participants including relatives of prisoners and human rights activists lit candles and carried pictures of detainees and placards to express their solidarity with them.
According to a reporter from the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) speeches delivered during the sit-in called for necessarily supporting the prisoners and standing by them during their hunger strike battle.
Issa Qaraqe head of the commission for detainees’ and ex-detainees’ affairs said the current hunger strike unified the Palestinian people from all spectra stressing the importance of helping the prisoners to win their battle against their jailers.
Qaraqe said the prisoners’ demands are natural and legitimate under international law.
“They are only defending their dignity and rebelling against the injustice and humiliation they are exposed to in prisons” he added.
