Solidarity sit-in to be staged outside 10 Downing Street on Saturday

Three non-governmental organizations in the UK have called for a sit-in to be staged outside 10 Downing Street in London on Saturday in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners in Israeli occupation jails.

The Palestinian forum called on the Palestinian, Arab, and Islamic communities in London along with all freedom loving persons to join the sit-in to show solidarity with the Palestinian prisoners who have been on hunger strike for ten days in Israeli jails.

It said that the prisoners were protesting their harsh incarceration conditions and Israeli violations of their rights and of their relatives in addition to demanding an end to solitary confinement and the policy of administrative detention, which holds prisoners in custody for indefinite periods without charge.

The Palestinian Forum in Britain (PFB), Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) and British Muslim Initiative (BMI) have called for the sit-in.