Palestinians want an end to their solitary confinement
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1292678,00.html
A hunger strike in Israeli prisons is a call for international
solidarity
Karma Nabulsi
Saturday August 28, 2004
The Guardian
The prisoners' hunger strike in Palestine is nearing the end of its
second week. Three days ago, in Askar and then Balata refugee camps
near Nablus, Israeli troops ran amok in the camps, making mass
arrests, beating women and children, shooting civilians at will, and
adding to the huge prison population - currently well over 7,500.
According to Israeli sources, more than 650,000 Palestinian men and
boys have gone through Israeli detention at some point in their lives.
That is over 40% of the male population in the occupied Palestinian
territories. At certain periods when the Israelis are trying to break
Palestinian resistance, they imprison anyone they can get their hands
on. For example, during the first Intifada Israel detained 50,000
Palestinians in a single year, representing 16% of the male population
aged between 14 and 55 of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Karma Nabulsi
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