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SIX Palestinian political prisoners are continuing their hunger strike in protest against being held without charge or trial, the PLO’s prisoners and ex-prisoners’ affairs commission said today.
Kayed Fasfous, Mikdad Qawasme, Alaa Araj, Hisham Abu Hawwash, Rayiq Bisharat and Shadi Abu Aker are among the 520 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons on draconian “administrative detention” orders.
The commission said that two of the hunger strikers, Kayed al-Fasfous and Miqdad Qawasme, have been without food for more than 60 days.
As Palestine Action prisoners go weeks without food, alleging dangerous neglect and detention without trial, campaigners warn that a near-total media blackout is hiding a crisis that could turn fatal – and fuel a growing wave of public anger. ELIZABETH SHORT reports
Groups are urging the US government to secure the 16-year old’s release as his mental and physical health decline dramatically after nine months inside Ofer prison, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
ANN CZERNIK looks back over the last two years of carnage that began with the unprecedented October 7 operation and considers the rhetoric from both sides in light of the massacre carried out by Israel that has united the world in horror
Thousands strike to ‘save hostages and stop military escalation’ in Gaza