Palestinian protesters at daybreak Sunday closed off the main entrances to Qalandiya refugee camp in northern Occupied Jerusalem in solidarity with hunger strikers in Israeli jails.
At around 5 a.m. Palestinian youngsters closed off all entrances to Qalandiya camp and the Jerusalem-Ramallah thoroughfare as part of a series of protest moves started as of February 16 in solidarity with the Palestinian hunger strikers Raed Mteir and Jamal Abu al-Leil.
Mteir and Abu al-Leil have been on an open-ended hunger strike since February 16 in protest at a renewed six-month administrative prison term slapped by the Israeli authorities with neither charge nor trial.
A sit-in ten along with marches and rallies have been held on a daily basis to speak up for the hunger strikers’ cause.
NGOs and the hunger strikers’ families held the Israeli occupation responsible for any turn for the worse the detainees’ lives might take in prison.
