June 11 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Committee for Prisoners in Administrative Detention has denounced pressure from the Israeli authorities to try to prevent Palestinian inmates from joining the indefinite hunger strike that will begin on June 18 to protest against the administrative detention regime.
The prisoners have begun to be summoned and threatened in view of the proximity of the start of the hunger strike. “The occupation wants to put pressure on the prisoners to discourage them from joining the hunger strike and promises them that if they do not participate there will be no reprisals,” the group said, according to the Palestinian daily ‘Al Quds’.
The Committee has declared a state of general mobilization in all prisons where prisoners are held in administrative detention, which allows the Israeli authorities to detain terror suspects without charge or trial for renewable intervals that typically range from three to six months, which in practice means their indefinite detention without trial.
The hunger strike, called under the slogan “Freedom, Revolution, Intifada against Administrative Detention”, demands Israel’s respect for International Humanitarian Law and the end of the administrative detention regime in Israeli prisons.
The prisoners have also summoned the Presidency and the Government of the Palestinian Authority to submit their demands, to activate all the diplomatic tools of pressure and to make this cause a “national priority” with the necessary popular support.
“The factions, the resistance, the institutions, civil society and our entire people must support their cause and their hunger strike with an uprising in all spheres and in all squares, igniting all points of contact with the occupation, forging a lever and a safety net for us in that battle,” he appealed.
It has also summoned Palestinian emigration abroad to participate in this protest by showing their solidarity through concentrations in front of the “enemy embassies” and addressing all European institutions and parliaments to pressure Israel to meet the demands raised.
