AL-KHALIL, (PIC)-- Families of five Al-Khalil detainees held by Abbas’s intelligence militia in the Jericho prison are calling on human rights organizations to step in on the Jericho prison administration to improve humanitarian conditions inside the prison.
The detainees, who have been held for more than two years, have been on hunger strike for two days for the second time in Ramadan, the families said in their appeal. The first strike was at the beginning of the month when they demanded improved conditions inside the prison.
The Jericho prison administration exercises psychological pressure on them and does not allow mobile phones to contact their families in Al-Khalil, they pleaded, adding that refrigerators have also been banned from the facility.
The prison authority agreed to a number of conditions set by the detainees to end the first hunger strike, but they reneged on two of them.
The prisoners, who have obtained a Supreme Court decree for their release many months back, suffer ill-treatment by prison guards, the families added.
The PA security militia arrested in 2008 a number of Hamas supporters in the city of Al-Khalil under pretexts of forming a Qassam cell under leadership of Wael Bitar, Ahmad al-Awiwi, Wassam Qwasimi, Mohannad Neiroukh, and Majd Obeid. They have ever since remained in intelligence custody.
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