Starving for Justice

How would you feel if your son or daughter went on a

hunger strike demanding justice for more than a month, and nobody

bothered to call you or check on you and your beloved one?  The

silence is so loud that our hearts bleed with those mothers who are

gathering daily in various areas including  the Red Cross offices  in

the Palestinian Territories. Yet there is  no reaction or action from

the Israeli authorities or the international community to respond to

their demands for basic rights  as political prisoners,  in accordance

to the Geneva Convention.  So many of those political prisoners have

been  under administrative detention without any charge or trial.

In fact the only action taken was to move most of those prisoners to

prisons near hospitals so that they can be hospitalised if need be or

force-fed without any intention of starting a dialogue with them.

How long  will Israel continue to  ignore the basic  demands of those

prisoners, and continue to  get away with treating  them with contempt

void of any human dignity.  Do they need to die before anybody cries

out Enough is Enough.

The focus this week has been  on the visit of Mr. Trump to the region.

And Israel claimed a couple of days ago that it is introducing  easier

measures for the Palestinians.  Is this a gimmick? Or is the

occupation authority trying to pull wool over  the eyes of the

American administration and the international community? How about

introducing easier measures for those prisoners, and starting a

dialogue with them?  Please we appeal to you our friends to raise your

voice before it is too late to save the lives of those young men and

women incarcerated for no other reason than for  their legitimate

right to resist an illegal occupation.