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Hamas dubs force-feeding of Palestinian hunger strikers “Israeli crime”

images_News_2014_06_08_resheq_300_0Ezzat al-Resheq, member of Hamas political bureau, spoke against Israeli attempts to force-feed the Palestinian hunger-striking detainees, describing them as an “Israeli crime” that amounts to psycho-physical torture.

But such Israeli crimes will never dampen the spirits of the hunger strikers who vowed to stand their grounds until all of their demands are met, Resheq said in a statement on Sunday

“46 days have passed by since the strike was initiated inside of Israeli lock-ups, but the prisoners’ will and faith have grown stronger. Today they are more resilient and determinant than ever to face up to their Israeli wardens,” he added.

Resheq called on all Palestinians and the world’s free people to assume their national, ethical, and humanitarian responsibilities to back up the prisoners and rally round them.

According to Resheq, the prisoners’ issue will always remain among Hamas’s main concerns.

“Time has come by for a real wake-up aiming at backing up the prisoners throughout their fight for freedom and dignity,” Resheq declared while acclaiming the solidarity moves staged so far.

Resheq slammed the PA security forces’ mistreatment of prisoners’ families and wives during the protest rally held in Tulkarem last Friday

Hamas member called for a serious prosecution of such violations and the assaults launched on the wife of the Hamas leader Abbas al-Sayyed, among many other women.

Along the same context, the health condition of Palestinian activist Fahmi Shahine, detained following a solidarity demo on the Naksa commemoration, has remarkably gone down, the Prisoner Society said on Sunday.

The Israeli occupation authorities carried the prisoner from Kiryat Arba detention center to Soroka hospital. Shahine has undergone a cardiac surgery and still needs another due to arterial laceration, the Prisoner Society added.

In a related event, the leadership of the administrative hunger strike confirmed to lawyer Jawad Boulos, following a prison visit that three hearing sessions with the Israeli Prison Service (IPS) did not work out.

IPS representatives revealed, verbatim, they are sick of the Palestinian hunger strikes and threatened, in the worst of cases, to hospitalize the strikers.

IPS further revealed, through a warning letter, their indifference vis-à-vis any potential deaths among the hunger-strikers.

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