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‘Press Israel to meet Palestinian prisoners’ demands’
Tuesday May 08, 2012 10:49:30 PM,
IANS
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Ramallah:
The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) and the Islamic Hamas
movement Tuesday called on the European Union (EU) to press Israel
to meet the demands of the hunger striking prisoners.
Palestinian Foreign Affairs Minister Riad al Maliki welcomed the
call by the EU’s missions in Jerusalem and Ramallah on Israel to
provide medical care for the hunger strikers and improve the
conditions of imprisonment, reported Xinhua.
Al Maliki said the EU members should “demonstrate these calls into
actions on the ground by putting more pressure on Israel.” He
warned that “time was not on the side of anybody and that the
death of any inmate would affect stability in the region.”
Meanwhile, Gaza ruler Hamas said that the EU’s call to Israel was
“insufficient,” and said that Europe should take “practical steps
to save the prisoners.”
Two of the Palestinians in Israeli jails have been fasting for 72
days to protest their administrative detention, a tactic that
allows Israel to hold them without a charge.
On April 17, at least 1,500 detainees started a hunger strike to
protest against their prison conditions and demand improvements.
The strike, started individually by dozens of inmates days and
weeks earlier, is the biggest collective protest in Israeli jails.
Israel holds 4,700 Palestinians, 320 of them on the so-called
administrative detention.
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