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| Contact the
State Deparment and Your Local Media Outlet Now About This Important
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| Support Palestinian Prisoners' Hunger Strike |
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| Demand an End to Inhumane Treatment and Deplorable
Conditions in Israeli Prisons |
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The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
urges you to contact the State Department and your local media
outlets about the ongoing Palestinian prisoners hunger strike.
The strike, which began on August 15, calls on Israeli
officials to address a wide range of issues concerning the
inhumane treatment of prisoners by guards, as well as the
overall harsh and deplorable conditions of the prisons
themselves. Prisoner's rights groups and families of those
serving in the facilities have also arranged and carried out
sit down protests. People and organizations all over the world
are fasting in solidarity with the Palestinian prisoners.
Proposed dates are Saturday August 28 and Sunday August 29.
The prisoners are requesting the cessation of
humiliating and unnecessary strip searches, more frequent
family visits, improving sanitary conditions, installing
public telephones, providing better medical care, allowing
prisoners to pursue their education by registering at
Palestinian and foreign universities, reducing prison
crowding, and "ending the policy of beating detainees en route
to courts."
Israeli reaction so far has been to impose
further restriction on the detainees, and psychologically
torture them. Prison officials have also deprived the
protesters of any water and salt, making the hunger strike
extremely dangerous and potentially fatal. Security Minster
Tzahi Hanegbi commented, “As far as I’m concerned they can
strike for a day, a month, until death. We will ward off this
strike and it will be as if it never happened.” Israel has a
responsibility, under international law, to assure the civil
rights and safety of people under its occupation, including
Palestinian prisoners
At a time when the U.S. is
gearing up for the Presidential election, it is imperative
that concerned Americans take action to aid the prisoners. For
you convenience, ADC has drafted a letter that you may send to
the State Department and your local media outlets to express
your concern.
This campaign is part of a larger effort
by many groups including, American Muslims for Jerusalem,
American Ramallah Federation, Arab American Institute, the
Council on American-Islamic Relations, International
Solidarity Movement, Non-Violence International, Palestine
Center, and US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation.
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