Arab League holds Israel responsible for lives of prisoners gone hungry

29/03/2011 – 11:07 AM

CAIRO, (PIC)– The Arab League says it holds Israel responsible for the deteriorating conditions of Palestinians detained in its jails, as prisoners go on wide-ranging hunger strike and the Israeli Knesset pushes for more restrictions.

The Arab League’s assistant secretary-general for Palestinian affairs Mohammed Subaih accused Israeli doctors of adding to the torture of the prisoners.

Prisoners in five detention centers have gone on hunger strike to protest constant and humiliating prison searches to their families during visits, solitary confinement and the Israeli Prison Service’s failure in responding to their needs.

Subaih said the Arab League will continue to make intense contacts with world rights groups to urge them visit and search the prisons for human rights violations.

Meanwhile, the Israeli Knesset has discussed four draft laws to tighten conditions on Palestinian prisoners. They will vote on the draft laws, which have been consolidated into one, in the first reading of its next session.

Grandfather of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who was captured by Palestinian resistance forces, attended the hearing and asked the lawmakers to implement the draft, but he warned that Gilad’s name should not be used on the law.

Separately, the Waed  Society for Captive and Ex-captives staged a stand in solidarity with prisoners Hassan Salama and Abbas al-Sayyid on Monday after a letter by Salama leaked from his cell in isolation and after Sayyid’s health deteriorated.

Salama who was jailed in Israeli prisons for more than ten years wrote a letter appealing to those in the outside world to regularly discuss his case with legal experts.

Hassan Salama, from Khan Younis in southern Gaza Strip, was sentenced to 48 life terms in 1996 after he took revenge for the assassination of the martyr Yahya Ayyash.

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