Monday 7 May 2012

PFLP leader Saadat refuses to negotiate with Israelis on hunger strike

[ 07/05/2012 - 12:19 PM ]


RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- Secretary general of the popular front for the liberation of Palestin (PFLP) Ahmed Saadat refused an Israeli request to negotiate with him regarding the hunger strike.

Saadat told a lawyer from Al-Dameer association that a committee from Shabas, the Israeli prison authority, visited him last Tuesday in order to discuss the issue of the collective hunger strike in Israeli jails.

Saadat told the committee members that he would not accept anything less than the demands set by the captive movement and the committee representing the hunger strikers.

The PFLP official also told them that he was not the party that is entitled to talk about this issue, reiterating his commitment to the decisions taken by the hunger strike committee.

The official also demanded the Palestinian authority to shoulder its resposibility in supporting the captive movement.

Meanwhile, according to PIC, "A meeting took place Monday between Israeli officials from Shabas and many Fatah officials in order to discuss the formation of a committee aimed at breaking the hunger strike of Fatah prisoners'

PIC is hinting to Marwan Barghouti who according to
Maan News Agency 
met with the head of prison authorities in Israel's Hadarim prison,
A senior Fatah official, who is a prisoner in Ofer jail, said in a leaked letter sent to the Palestinian information center (PIC) that Israeli prison officials embarked in the morning on arranging for their meeting with Fatah leaders in prison.

The prisoner affirmed that those leaders would delegate one of them to coordinate with the Israeli prison authority on the steps to be taken to convince or force Fatah prisoners to break their hunger strike.

Informed sources from inside Israeli jails reported that 65 Fatah prisoners ended their hunger strike on Sunday, most notably, prisoner Naser Abu Hamid after they were pressured by the leadership of Fatah faction.

The Fatah leadership threatened those prisoners to freeze their membership and their financial rights for two years if they did not end their hunger strike immediately."

Meanwhile also, Haneyya delivers message from prisoners to Erdogan

I [Alex] wonder if Haneya is expecting Erdugan to call NATO for an urgent meeting to discuss the critical situation of Palestinian prisoners and hunger-strikers in Israeli jails, or for a meeting for the "friends of Palestine"


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Recep Tayyip Erdoğan addressing the meeting of Friends of Syria in Istanbul. Photo AFP.
"Haneyya government was closely following up the issue of the hunger strikers and was having contacts with the Arab League, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, and sisterly and friendly countries to internationalize the issue of those prisoners and to establish an international pressure lobby championing their demands."
Finally The authorities in Egypt, OUR BIG SISTER, "blocked on Sunday the entry of a 124-member delegation of international investors into Gaza Strip via the Rafah crossing despite obtaining prior approval.

The Cairo-based Palestinian affairs center said in a statement that the Egyptian security authorities at Rafah border point claimed that the delegation, from 16 countries, did not obtain prior coordination necessary for its entry.

The center said that the authorities at the crossing summoned additional forces and threatened to return the participants by force. It held the Egyptian authorities responsible for any harm done to members of the delegation.

The delegates were going to attend the first conference for investment in Palestine that is held in unison between the West Bank and Gaza Strip."

Long live Arab Spring and Arab revolution, the "great asset for Palestinian cause"

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