Palestinian detainees in Petah Tikva Israeli prison on Hunger Strike

Tuesday August 21, 2007 23:00 by IMEMC Staff

Palestinian detainees imprisoned in the Petah Tikva Israeli detention facility started on Tuesday an open-ended hunger strike in protest to bad living conditions and abusive treatment by the soldiers.

In a letter which was leaked from the prison, the detainees stated that one of the reasons of the strike is the continued detention of some of them in Petah Tikva, which is an interrogation facility, instead of transferring them to central prisons.

The detainees also stated in their letter that the food provided to them is of a bad quality and that the soldiers manning the detention facility carried repeated attacks against them.

Meanwhile, the Nafha Society for Defending the Rights of the Detainees and Human Rights issued a press release calling on all human rights groups to act in order to save the lives of the detainees in Petah Tikva and all Israeli detention and interrogation facility, especially since the detainees are subjected to ongoing violations and attacks.

One of the lawyers of Nahfa managed to visit a number of detainees who informed him of the bad conditions and of the ongoing attacks carried by the soldiers.

The detainees told the lawyer that the conditions are gradually declining as these attacks continue, and that they are deprived from their basic rights guaranteed by the International Law and the Fourth Geneva Conventions.

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