Detainees in an Israeli prison on hunger strike for the tenth day

Friday August 10, 2007 00:24 by IMEMC Staff

Palestinian detainees in Eshil Israeli detention facility continued their hunger strike for the tenth day after one detainee died of medical neglect  at the Nafha central prison in the Negev desert.

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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 July 31, 2007.

The media department at the Nafha Society, which is a society defending the rights of detainees and human rights, stated that the detainees in Eshil will continue their strike until the Israeli prison administration stops its violations and stops it illegal practices against the detainees. Meanwhile, the family of detainee Murad Rajoub, who is sentenced to 38 years and imprisoned in Eshil, stated that the administration barred all visitation to the parents of the detainees as a punishment for the detainee’s strike.

The family added that the soldiers told them and the rest of the families who came to visit their detained family members that all visitations are not allowed until the detainees end their strike.

The Nafha society appealed human rights groups and the Red Cross Society to intervene and stop the Israeli violations against the detainees and provide them with the needed medical care.

The Society added that dozens of detainees are in critical health conditions and are barred from medical care and attention which is endangering their lives and further complicating their health conditions.

The Society also said that the Red Cross and Human Rights groups must act immediately and expose the illegal Israeli practices against the detainees since these acts are direct violations to the international law and the Fourth Geneva Conventions.Translated by Sa'ed Bannoura - IMEMC

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