Gazans express solidarity with Palestinian prisoners
The Islamic Jihad movement and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine held a sit-in in solidarity with thousands of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.
The event took place near the Israeli controlled Erez crossing in northern Gaza.
The move comes as thousands of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails suffer from inhumane treatment and are being denied their basic rights.
The Israeli regime has imprisoned nearly one million Palestinians since 1967.
Many Palestinian prisoners suffer from chronic illnesses and are denied proper medical treatment by Israel’s Prison Service who runs Israeli prisons.
Statistics show that over two hundred Palestinian detainees have died in Israeli prisons since 1967 due to medical negligence.
According to prisoners’ advocacy groups Israel is currently holding some 5,000 Palestinians behind bars, including women and children.
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We look back on seven decades of Palestinian resistance against the Israeli occupation and the international support, or lack thereof, for the Palestinian cause as violence from Zionist mobs unfolds against Palestinians in the heart of the capital of Palestine, the Holy City of Jerusalem.
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Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi says he has informed the United Arab Emirates of Islamabad's “steadfast” policy towards Israel, noting that the country will refuse to recognize the occupying regime until the issue of Palestine is resolved.
