PFLP leader ends nine-day hunger strike

Date: 14 / 06 / 2009 Time: 14:03
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Ramallah – Ma’an – Secretary-General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) Ahmad Sa’adat, ended a nine-day hunger strike inside an Israeli jail on Sunday, according to Palestinian Minister of Prisoners affairs Issa Qaraqe.

Qaraqe said in a press conference held at Watan Information Center in the West Bank city of Ramallah that Sa’adat had decided to go on hunger strike in order to highlight the dire conditions of Palestinian prisoners in Israel’s custody especially solitary confinement. He explained that a prisoner in solitary confinement would be segregated from other prisoners and denied basic necessities of life.

For her part, Sa’adat’s wife Abla could not hide her happiness that her husband ended the hunger strike. She said however that she has not been allowed to visit her husband for three months, and their son has been denied visitation rights for three years.

PFLP lawmaker Khalida Jarrar told reporters that Sa’adat began hunger strike after he was in solitary confinement for three months.

The Israel army seized Sa’adat in a raid on a Palestinian Authority prison in Jericho in 2006, where he had been held since 2001 over the assassination of Israel’s right-wing tourism minister, Rehavam Ze’evi.