Palestinian protesters closed on Monday morning the main access road to Qalandiya refugee camp in solidarity with Palestinian hunger strikers in Israeli jail.
According to local sources the protesters closed the Ramallah-Jerusalem thoroughfare in an attempt to mobilize support for the Palestinian hunger strikers in Israeli jails.
The move makes part of a series of protest events that started last week in response to Israel’s mistreatment of Palestinian detainees and in protest at the apathy maintained by the international community as regards the hunger strikers’ cause.
Three Palestinians—Raed Mteir Jamal Abu al-Leil and Mohamed al-Qeiq—have been on an open-ended hunger strike in protest at being held administratively with neither charge nor trial in Israeli lock-ups.
