People in Gaza hold sit-in to support Palestinian prisoners in Israeli custody
Ashraf Shannon
Press TV, Gaza
Prisoners' advocacy groups and prisoners’ rights activists have held a sit-in in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners suffering in Israeli prisons and detention centers.
The sit-in which took place inside the Red Cross office in Gaza comes only one day after the Israeli regime renewed the administrative detention order of Hesham Abu Hawwash, who has been on hunger-strike protesting his administrative detention for nearly four months.
Some five hundred Palestinian prisoners are being held in Israeli jails under Administrative Detention.
Administrative detainees are incarcerated based on secret evidence without charge or trial for long periods of time.
Palestinian prisoners are kept in 24 Israeli jails and detention centers and are being subjected to torture and psychological pressures by Israeli prison authorities.
They include women and children as well as elderly prisoners.
According to legal experts, Tel-Aviv has long considered itself above international law and conventions due to the protection it enjoys from some countries like the United States.
Currently around forty-five hundred Palestinian prisoners are being held in Israeli custody under inhumane conditions.
Palestinian prisoners are political prisoners and they are regarded as heroes and freedom fighters by all Palestinians.
According to the latest statistics, Israel has imprisoned over one million Palestinians since 1967.
Thousands of Palestinians are currently behind bars and languishing in Israeli prisons.
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