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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 StoryPalestinian detainees carry hunger strike in protest to medical neglect Wednesday August 01, 2007 22:59 by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC
 Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons and detention facilities carried a one-day hunger-strike on Wednesday in protest to the Israeli policies of medical neglect of all detainees. The protest was carried out after detainee Shadi Al Su'edi, 27, from Al Maghazi refugee camp in the Gaza strip died of medical neglect in an Israeli prison on Tuesday. The Media Department of the Nafha Society for Defending Human Rights and the Rights of the Detainees reported that 11000 detainees carried a hunger strike on Wednesday in protest to these policies and called on all Palestinian human rights institutions and Palestinians civil society institutions to carry protests against the illegal Israeli practices especially since hundreds of detainees are in immediate need for medical treatment while the Israeli Prison Authority refuses to provide them with the needed medical treatment. The Wa’ed Society, which is also a society that defends the rights of Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons, appealed several human rights and medical groups to practice pressure on the Israeli authorities to improve the conditions of the detainees and provide them with the needed medical attention and treatment. The Society also installed a protest tent on Tuesday in front of the Red Cross Society in Gaza. Head of the Society, Saber Abu Karsh, warned that the policy of medical neglect is affecting hundreds of sick detainees who need immediate medical attention. “in light of the deterioration of the conditions of the detainees in Israeli prisons, and the continued medical neglect they face, we appeal all international parties and human rights groups, to intervene and practice pressures on the Israeli government to improve the conditions of the detainees and provide them with all of their international guaranteed rights”, Abu Karsh stated, “All detainees should be freed, without any preconditions or discrimination”. He also called on all Palestinian factions and human rights groups to place the issue of the detainees as a high priority in order to draw the international attention to this important issue as the detainees continue to face harsh living conditions, torture, abuse and medical neglect. |
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