Sixty Palestinian Prisoners on Hunger Strike were Taken to Hospitals

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“The prison administration began on Wednesday morning to transfer 60 prisoners of hunger strike from the Ohilikdar and Hadarim prisons to civilian hospitals,” the media committee said in a statement.

“The administration is imposing an impotence on the health conditions of the striking prisoners and on the daily and intensive movements they carry out against them,” said the lawyer of the prisoners and prisoners’ affairs committee, Hanan al-Khatib, after visiting detainees who were beaten in prison.

Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners continue an open hunger strike under the slogan “Strike of Freedom and Dignity” since April 17.

The strikers demand stopping solitary confinement, administrative detention, restrictions on family visits, and improved medical care and living conditions.

According to Palestinian reports, the number of Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails is 7,000, including 330 from the Gaza Strip, 680 from Jerusalem and 1948 lands , and 6,000 from the West Bank.

According to the media committee of the Prisoners’ Affairs Authority and the Prisoner’s Club, the striking prisoners are subjected to “a series of daily inspections. The prison administration deliberately confiscates the salt and deprives them of contact with the outside world.”

The Committee stressed that the information it received confirmed “the administration of prisons continuity in its procedures against the prisoners, especially in the evacuation operations which has carried out since the first day of the strike.”