"Entering their fourth hunger-striking day, Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails released a message calling on their people's support in the ongoing 'battle' against Israel's administrative detention law, Egypt's state-run news agency MENA reported Sunday.
"The hunger strikers are currently imprisoned under Israel's so-called administrative detention law -- in place since the end of the 1948 British mandate in Palestine – which allows the arrest of Palestinians deemed a 'threat' to Israel's national security ..." http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/99913.aspx "Four Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jail began a hunger strike on Wednesday in protest against their detention without trial, a Palestinian prisoner advocacy group said on Sunday. "News of the four hunger strikers follows reports that over 100 Palestinian prisoners began a mass, open-ended hunger strike in a number of Israeli jails on Thursday in protest against being held without charge or trial under a policy Israel calls 'administrative detention' ..." http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=693169 "Israeli authorities transported 70 administrative prisoners in Al-Naqab prison from cells to tents in the aftermath of their open hunger strike started three days ago. "A released prisoner, Mohamed Al-Souki, 29 years old, said that the prison administration transferred administrative prisoners to tents as a collective punishment, and threatened to take additional punitive measures against them ..." http://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/middle-east/11118-israel-transports-70-palestinian-prisoners-on-hunger-strike-to-tents -- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað." _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
