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Recent Articles about Palestine Prisoners
Dweik calls for the release of all legislators imprisoned by Israel Jul 02 09 PLC head could be released next week Jun 18 09 Saadat on hunger strike Jun 11 09 Latest News ArticlesIsraeli sub crosses the Egyptian Suez Peninsula. 11:01 Sat 04 Jul Bahraini officials arrive in Israel to take five Bahraini nationals back home 10:24 Sat 04 Jul Israel cuts off water to Arab Druze towns on hottest day of year 01:49 Sat 04 Jul Israel pledges to compensate UN for shelling its facilities in Gaza 23:53 Fri 03 Jul Three children diagnosed with swine-flu 23:31 Fri 03 Jul Soldiers attack the Nil'in weekly Protest 17:26 Fri 03 Jul Three Injured during the weekly Bil'in protest 16:13 Fri 03 Jul Israeli Housing Minister Concerned over increasing Arab population 11:32 Fri 03 Jul Soldiers wound a Palestinian woman at a roadblock in the Jordan valley 08:04 Fri 03 Jul Soldiers break into the Al Aqsa Mosque yard, kidnap three Palestinians 05:37 Fri 03 Jul Full StoryDetainee on Hunger Strike after prison administration refused to provide him with medical treatmentDetainee Ahmad Ismail Safi, 22, from the West Bank city of Jericho, declared an open-ended hunger strike after the Israeli Prison Administration at the Negev Detention Facility refused to provide him with the neccessary medical treatment. Safi suffers paralysis in his left foot, and needs to have the bullet that has been embedded in it for more than six years surgically removed.
He recieved the initial wound when he was shot by the Israeli army on October 16 2001. He has been receiving treatment and therapy since then, but needs surgery to avoid further complications.
In a phone interview, Eid Barahma, head of the Jericho Office of the Palestinian Prisoner Society, told the Maan News Agency that Safi was transferred recently to administrative detention after he served a 17-month sentence.
Instead of being released after finishing his sentence period, Safi was transferred to administrative detention without charges or trial.
Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons have carried out several hunger strikes in protest against the poor living conditions, the repeated attacks against them and the lack of medical treatment receieved by them; especially those suffering from chronic diseases, disabilities and other conditions that require continuous medical attention.
At least 173 detainees have died in Israeli prisons since Israel occupied the Palestinian territories in 1967. |