Palestinian prisoners stop hongersstaking

JERUSALEM –

Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails have Saturday, after forty days of their hunger strike ended. Report that the Israeli prison service and a Palestijse government official.

About eleven hundred prisoners were initially involved with the hunger strike on 17 april began and tensions led between Israel and the Palestinians. On the occupied West Bank and along the border between Israel and Gaza was protested in solidarity with the prisoners.

Wednesday urged the High Commissioner for human Rights of the United Nations, Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, with Israel on the conditions for Palestinians in Israeli prisons to improve.

Karaka, neither the Israeli prison service made the further details of the agreement. The prison service reported, however, that a second monthly visit would be entered after the past was deleted.

The strike was called by Marwan Barghouti, the hooggeplaatstste prisoner in Israel, to protest against solitary confinement and the Israeli practices to people without any form of due process to imprison. According to Israel, that is necessary to attacks and security sources to protect.

Barghouti, one of the leaders within the Fatah movement of Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, is in 2004 sentenced to five times life sentence for the murder did we create during the Second Intifada. Polls show that many Palestinians, Barghouti as the next president want.


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