Palestinian national and Islamic forces in Jenin organized Friday evening a solidarity sit-in in support of Palestinian hunger-striking prisoners in Israeli jails.
The participants called for intensifying the popular support for the prisoners’ strike in light of the Israeli Prison Service’s punitive measures against them.
The Coordinator of the Popular Committee for the support of the prisoners Ragheb Abu Diak stressed that the Israeli punitive measures including provocative raids solitary confinement and denial access to salt would never succeed to undermine their steadfastness.
Some 1500 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails are going on a mass hunger strike for the sixth consecutive day in order to protest their dire detention conditions.
The mass hunger strike which started on April 17 comes in response to the mistreatment Palestinians have been subjected to in Israeli lock-ups.
