Palestine – Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails on hunger strike since 17 April have ended their mass protest after reaching an agreement with the Israel Prison Service to achieve their humanitarian demands.
Issa Qaraqaa, head of prisoners affairs in Palestinian authority, and Qadoura Fares, head of the Prisoner Club Association said that the agreement came after continuous negotiations lasted twenty hours between the administration of the Prison Service and hunger strike prisoner leader Marwan Barghouthi.
The Palestinian sources indicated that the prisoners achieved a legendary victory in the epic of freedom and dignity hunger strike after 41 days adding that the agreement reached after 20 hours of negotiations inside the prison of Ashkelon with leadership of the strike led by Marwan Barghouthi and his brothers Ahmed the French Nasser Abu Hamid.
It is noteworthy that about (1800) prisoners have declared hunger strike for 41 days in a row to demand some human rights guaranteed by all international conventions, but the occupation authorities did not respond to their demands and increased their repressive measures against them and did not care about their health conditions that got deteriorated to the point of a real threat to their lives.
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