From: "Dawn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 27 Oct 2001 14:27:13 -0000 Subject: [pttp] Jailed Palestinians Begin Hunger Strike Reuters. 26 October 2001. Jailed Palestinians Begin Hunger Strike. JERUSALEM - At least 37 Palestinians held in Palestinian Authority prisons under suspicion of involvement in the assassination of an Israeli cabinet minister began a hunger strike on Friday to protest against their arrests. The strikers, who belong mainly to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) which claimed responsibility for killing the far-right minister, Rehavam Zeevi, on October 17, said they had been in police custody for eight days. "We declare that our hunger strike started this morning under the slogan 'freedom or death'," they said in a statement. The PFLP killed Zeevi to avenge Israel's assassination of their leader, Abu Ali Mustafa, in a missile strike in August. Abdel-Rahim Mallouh, a senior PFLP political official, confirmed that members of his group and their supporters had started the strike in Palestinian prisons in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. "We condemn all these political arrests, which coincide with Israeli massacres against our people," said Mallouh. "We should be in one trench against Israeli aggression." The PFLP opposes Palestinian-Israeli interim peace deals, saying the agreements do not meet Palestinian aspirations for independence. _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
