by Itsik Saban
Some 86 security prisoners announce they are ending hunger strike, joining 100 prisoners who quit strike over the past few days • Israel Prison Service sets up field hospital outside Ketziot Prison to avoid transporting prisoners to civilian hospitals.
Jailed Fatah leader Marwan
Barghouti escorted to Jerusalem Magistrates' court [Archive]
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Some 86 Palestinian security prisoners, mostly
Hamas terrorists jailed in Gilboa Prison in northern Israel, announced
Saturday they were ending their hunger strike, joining 100 other
prisoners who had already decided to end their strike over the past few
days.
Last Sunday, over 1,000 security prisoners
jailed in prisons across Israel, such as Megiddo, Ketziot, Shikma and
Hadarim, declared they would be going on an "indefinite" hunger strike
to protest the conditions of their confinement. The strikers demanded
access to more television channels, more phone contact with relatives
and more family visits, as well as better medical treatment and that
disabled inmates or those suffering chronic illness be freed.
Jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti
led the hunger strike, urging mass protest in a New York Times op-ed.
Barghouti was convicted in 2004 of five counts of murder, several counts
of conspiracy to commit murder, and aiding and abetting terrorist
activities, and he is serving five consecutive life terms and an
additional 40 years.
Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan
reiterated that the hunger strike was politically motivated and that the
government would not negotiate with security prisoners.
The Israel Prison Service set up a field hospital
outside Ketziot Prison to prevent transporting sick prisoners to
civilian hospitals.
Itsik Saban
Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=41949
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