Palestinian Authority Prisoner Affairs Minister Issa Qaraqe denies statements by the Israel Prisons Service that a large number of Palestinian prisoners have quit their hunger strike in recent days.
According to the IPS, 186 Palestinian prisoners ended their open-ended protest since Friday.
Qaraqe told the official Palestinian news agency Wafa in a telephone interview “that the opposite” was true — that more Palestinian prisoners were joining the strike in both the Meggido and Rimon prisons.
“If any prisoner had quit, then [the IPS] would return them back to the regular prisoners’ cells and we would hear about that,” he says.
An estimated 1,200 Palestinian prisoners, mostly from the Fatah organization and including many convicted terrorists, declared a hunger strike last week in a bid to improve their conditions in Israeli prisons.
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