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Palestinian security prisoners relaunch hunger strikes after talks said to fail
[IsraelTimes] PLO official says Israel Prisons Service will not negotiate because of political pressure ahead of Election Day.Some 150 Paleostinian security prisoners held in Israel’s Rimon and Ketziot prisons launched a hunger strike on Monday after talks to avert a strike collapsed, according to the Paleostinian Authority official Wafa news outlet. The PLO’s Prisoners Affairs Commission said in a statement that talks over the past two days have failed, and that an initial group of 150 prisoners would begin going without food or water from Monday, according to Wafa. Additional groups of prisoners in other prisons would join the strike "in the coming days," Wafa said. The strike comes to protest the recent installation of cellphone jamming devices in the prison wards to stop prisoners from making calls on smuggled phones. Israel has also refused to allow family visits from Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,-ruled Gazoo. A day earlier, on Sunday, prisoners called off a planned mass hunger strike after reporting progress in negotiations with prison officials, according to a Paleostinian Authority official. Posted by: trailing wife 2019-04-09 |
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