Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces on Monday evening banned families of hunger striking detainees in Israeli jails from staging a sit-in before the tomb of late President Yasser Arafat. The families were gathered at the gates of Arafat’s mausoleum in order to send a message to the presidency and call on it to take urgent action to solve the issue of the prisoners’ hunger strike.
SAFA news agency quoted Fadwa al-Barghouti wife of the hunger striking captive and member of Fatah Central Committee Marwan al-Barghouti as saying that the PA security forces allowed her alone to sit-in at Arafat’s mausoleum.
The PIC reporter said that about 20 mothers of the hunger striking prisoners along with solidarity figures participated in a protest sit-in in front of the presidency headquarters near the mausoleum and were trying to enter and join Fadwa al-Barghouti. Some women managed to enter and joined Barghouti’s wife.
