Jailed PFLP leader to start open hunger strike

Secretary-General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) Ahmad Saadat and the front’s prisoners announced their intention to start an open hunger strike on Sunday.

“PFLP branch in Israeli prisons led by Secretary-General Ahmad Saadat has decided to launch an open hunger strike on Sunday in protest of the Israeli aggressive policy against prisoners, depriving them of their just demands,” the front said in a statement.

According to the statement, the prisoners’ demands include allowing family visits, providing the medical treatment to prisoners, stopping administrative detentions, improving living conditions in prisons and stopping Israeli special operations units from breaking into prisons.

The statement stressed that this step comes to defend the Palestinian prisoners’ rights.

The front called on the Palestinian people to support prisoners in their strike.