Gaza Children Show Solidarity with Palestinian Prisoners
School children in the besieged Gaza Strip have released balloons into the sky as a show of solidarity with Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails, Press TV reports.
On Tuesday, the children released hundreds of colorful balloons that floated away in the sky with messages written on them.
The event came a day before Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank commemorate Palestinian Prisoners’ Day.
Palestinian Minister for Prisoners’ Affairs Issa Qaraqe said on April 10 that a prisoner died mysteriously behind bars, the third inmate who has died in an Israeli jail over the past couple of months.
On April 2, cancer-stricken Maisarah Abu Hamdiah lost his life in an Israeli jail after he was denied medical care by prison authorities.
Arafat Jaradat, 30, who was arrested on February 18 on suspicion of hurling stones at Israeli troopers, died days later in Israel’s Magiddo prison. The Israeli regime claims that Jaradat died of cardiac arrest, a claim Palestinians deny.
On April 10, Palestinians staged a sit-in in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.
The sit-in was held to raise awareness on the condition of Palestinian prisoners and hunger strikers such as Samer Issawi, who was arrested in July 2012 only months after being released as part of a prisoner swap deal between the Israeli regime and the Palestinian resistance movement of Hamas.
Issawi has been on hunger strike to protest against his administrative detention, which is a sort of imprisonment without trial or charge that allows the Tel Aviv regime to incarcerate Palestinians for up to six months. The detention order can be renewed for indefinite periods of time.
According to Palestinian sources, over 4,500 Palestinian prisoners are held in Israeli prisons, many of them without charge or trial, and are subject to human rights violations such as the use of torture during interrogations.
Source: Press TV
The event came a day before Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank commemorate Palestinian Prisoners’ Day.
Palestinian Minister for Prisoners’ Affairs Issa Qaraqe said on April 10 that a prisoner died mysteriously behind bars, the third inmate who has died in an Israeli jail over the past couple of months.
On April 2, cancer-stricken Maisarah Abu Hamdiah lost his life in an Israeli jail after he was denied medical care by prison authorities.
Arafat Jaradat, 30, who was arrested on February 18 on suspicion of hurling stones at Israeli troopers, died days later in Israel’s Magiddo prison. The Israeli regime claims that Jaradat died of cardiac arrest, a claim Palestinians deny.
On April 10, Palestinians staged a sit-in in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.
The sit-in was held to raise awareness on the condition of Palestinian prisoners and hunger strikers such as Samer Issawi, who was arrested in July 2012 only months after being released as part of a prisoner swap deal between the Israeli regime and the Palestinian resistance movement of Hamas.
Issawi has been on hunger strike to protest against his administrative detention, which is a sort of imprisonment without trial or charge that allows the Tel Aviv regime to incarcerate Palestinians for up to six months. The detention order can be renewed for indefinite periods of time.
According to Palestinian sources, over 4,500 Palestinian prisoners are held in Israeli prisons, many of them without charge or trial, and are subject to human rights violations such as the use of torture during interrogations.
Source: Press TV
