PA: Talks ongoing to resolve hunger strike demands
Published today (updated) 12/05/2012 11:42
Rights groups say around 2,000 prisoners are on hunger strike.
BETHLEHEM
(Ma’an) -- A comprehensive solution to widespread hunger strike action
by prisoners is being discussed between Palestinian, Israeli and
Egyptian officials, the Palestinian Authority prisoners affairs minister
said Saturday.
Issa Qaraqe told Ma'an that President Mahmoud Abbas, PA officials, Egyptian and international mediators have been working hard to find a solution which secures the demands of the hunger strikers.
Egyptian mediators are negotiating with the Israelis, in coordination with Palestinian officials, Qaraqe said.
Talks are trying to secure three demands; an end to administrative detention, family visits for prisoners from the Gaza Strip, and an end to the policy of solitary confinement.
Any agreement between officials would then have to be approved by a hunger strike committee, which consists of high profile prisoners from different Palestinian political factions, the PA official added.
Rights groups say around 2,000 prisoners are on hunger strike to demand improved conditions in Israeli jails.
The fate of the hunger strikers has touched a raw nerve in the Palestinian territories with daily demonstrations in the occupied West Bank and in the Gaza Strip to support the protest.
An estimated 40 percent of men in the occupied territories have been detained by Israel at some point in their lives.
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Traduction de Wassyla Hayat Publié par Maan ce matin.
Des médiateurs égyptiens négocient avec les Israéliens, en coordination avec des responsables palestiniens, a déclaré Qaraqe (ministre en charge des prisonniers de l'Autorité palestinienne).
Les pourparlers ont pour but d'obtenir la satisfaction de trois demandes : la fin de la détention administrative, des visites familiales pour les prisonniers de la bande de Gaza, et la fin de la politique de l'isolement.
Tout accord devra alors être approuvé par le comité de la grève de la faim, qui se compose de prisonniers de haut niveau provenant de différentes factions politiques palestiniennes, a ajouté le représentant de l'AP.
Issa Qaraqe told Ma'an that President Mahmoud Abbas, PA officials, Egyptian and international mediators have been working hard to find a solution which secures the demands of the hunger strikers.
Egyptian mediators are negotiating with the Israelis, in coordination with Palestinian officials, Qaraqe said.
Talks are trying to secure three demands; an end to administrative detention, family visits for prisoners from the Gaza Strip, and an end to the policy of solitary confinement.
Any agreement between officials would then have to be approved by a hunger strike committee, which consists of high profile prisoners from different Palestinian political factions, the PA official added.
Rights groups say around 2,000 prisoners are on hunger strike to demand improved conditions in Israeli jails.
The fate of the hunger strikers has touched a raw nerve in the Palestinian territories with daily demonstrations in the occupied West Bank and in the Gaza Strip to support the protest.
An estimated 40 percent of men in the occupied territories have been detained by Israel at some point in their lives.
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Traduction de Wassyla Hayat Publié par Maan ce matin.
Des médiateurs égyptiens négocient avec les Israéliens, en coordination avec des responsables palestiniens, a déclaré Qaraqe (ministre en charge des prisonniers de l'Autorité palestinienne).
Les pourparlers ont pour but d'obtenir la satisfaction de trois demandes : la fin de la détention administrative, des visites familiales pour les prisonniers de la bande de Gaza, et la fin de la politique de l'isolement.
Tout accord devra alors être approuvé par le comité de la grève de la faim, qui se compose de prisonniers de haut niveau provenant de différentes factions politiques palestiniennes, a ajouté le représentant de l'AP.
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