Prison Management Escalates Repression, Prisoners Stay Firm

Prison Management Escalates Repression, Prisoners Stay Firm
Ahrar-Wledna
Tuesday, May 01, 2012
The Israeli prison management has threatened Palestinian hunger strikers it will not offer medical treatment to those who insist on striking.

A reporter for Ahrar-Wledna said that the prisoners are refraining from going to clinics as a measure of protest, and insist on striking until their demands are met.

A spokesperson for Israeli Mobile Doctors expressed his concern about sick strikers on el-Jazeera Satellite Channel. He said that the organization had conveyed its concerns to the Israeli authorities, but the authorities increased the difficulties and did not cooperate.

He said that some prisoners have been taken to prison hospitals, but they should be taken to better hospitals. The management also refuses to let outside doctors see the ill strikers.

Last night, Israeli prison guards stormed section five in Majedow prison, and evacuated it to bring in other prisoners, which means that the prison will be even more overcrowded, added our reporter.

Prisoner sources said that isolated striker Abdullah Al-Barghouthi is in a critical condition, after many days of strike. He threatens that he will abstain from drinking water as well if prison management keeps him any longer in solitary confinement, which he has been in for years.

The sources added that the management confiscated salt from the prisons, to force the strikers to halt the strike.

Ibrahim Hamed, Ahmad Sa’adat, Thayer Halahle, Bilal Ziap are all in a critical condition after a long period without food, according to legal organizations.

Palestinian lawyers are today refraining from entering Israeli courts, in sympathy with the strikers.

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