ADVOCATES APPEAL FOR SUPPORTING CAUSE OF JORDANIAN HUNGER STRIKERS
Jenin, 8 Sha’ban 1434/17 June 2013 (MINA) – Activists in prisoners’ affairs called on Saturday (15/6) on the Arab and Muslim nations, and the world’s free peoples to support the cause of the Jordanian hunger strikers in Israeli jails.
They called for enforcing the Wadi Araba treaty and release the Jordanian prisoners from Israeli jails, Palestinian Information Center (PIC) reported as monitored by Mi’raj News Agency (MINA).
The media reported, Jordanian prisoners have been on hunger strike for more than 45 days and all of them are in the infirmary of Ramla jail after a sharp decline in their health conditions.
The Jordanian hunger strikers demand their transfer to Jordanian prisons to spend the rest of their terms there according to the agreements between Jordan and Israel and to allow their families to visit them regularly in jail.
They also demand the Israeli regime to disclose the fate of 20 other Jordanian prisoners who were classified as missing and repatriate the bodies of the Jordanian martyrs buried in the graveyard of “Numbers.”
In a separate incident, a group of Palestinian prisoners in Ramon jail decided to go on hunger strike as of next Monday to demand an end to their solitary confinement.
Prisoner Jihad Dweikat said he and seven other detainees would start an open-ended hunger strike to protest their detention for about three months in isolation cells and to demand their transfer to prisons close to the areas where their families live.
Dweikat added that the Israeli prison administration had promised them several months ago to meet their demands, but none of its pledges have been fulfilled.
The prisoners, who intend to go on this group hunger strike, are Sa’eid Maslama, Abdullah Barham, Mousa Jumu’ah, Ali Hassan, Jihad Dweikat and Mohamed Al-Bulbul, and all of them are from different West Bank areas save the last one, who are from the Gaza Strip.(T/P03/E1)
Mi’raj News Agency (MINA)
