Hundreds of Palestinian inmates to go on open hunger strike

‘A large number of Palestinian prisoners across the political spectrum have pledged to go on a hunger strike in solidarity with a top Palestinian Fatah Movement’s jailed leader who will launch a mass open-ended hunger strike along with hundreds of other jailed members of the movement later this month.
The Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs said in a statement on Saturday that some 70 inmates from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine who are held at Gilboa Prison in northern Israel would join the mass hunger strike by 430 Fatah prisoners on April 17.
The major strike action is led by Marwan Barghouti.’
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