On Saturday, Amnesty International that "Israel's decades-long policy of detaining Palestinians from the occupied West Bank and Gaza in prisons inside Israel and depriving them of regular family visits is not only cruel but also a blatant violation of international law".
Around 1,300 Palestinians in Israeli prisons on Monday started an indefinite hunger strike to demand an improvement in their conditions.
In an opinion piece in the New York Times on Monday, Barghouti said a strike was the only way to gain concessions after other options had failed. "We will not surrender to it". Assad is an ophthalmologist by training. Zomlot also handed Ratney a document summarizing these claims, which Ratney, according to the Palestinian reports, said he will pass to the senior ranks of the administration.
Barghouti's call for the strike has given it added credibility, with the 57-year-old serving five life sentences over his role in the second Palestinian intifada or uprising.
People walk past a poster depicting Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails, in the West Bank city of Ramallah April 17, 2017.
The public editor for the New York Times rebuked the paper on Tuesday for running an op-ed by a "Palestinian leader" while omitting his multiple terrorism convictions.
He was convicted of attacks that killed five people. Some 500 are held under administrative detention, which allows for imprisonment without charges or trial.
"The unity of prisoners in occupation prisons will leave the Palestinian street unified behind them", said the head of the Palestinian Prisoners society in Hebron, Amjad Najjar.
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He also ordered a field hospital set up outside the Ketziot Prison to keep convicts in need of medical attention out of civilian hospitals. "It is to be emphasized that the [prison service] does not negotiate with prisoners. Palestinian prisoners have been demanding these basic rights for years", said Amina al-Taweel, spokesperson for the Hebron-based Palestinian Prisoners Center for Studies.
The hunger-striking prisoners were calling for better conditions including access to phones, better medical services and extended visiting rights for their families.
A day before the strike began, Barghouti had described his personal experience in Israeli prisons, speaking of "inhumane" treatment and "humiliation" when explaining the reasoning behind the protest.
Protesters took to the streets to show support for the strikers and Barghouti, whose name has been floated as a possible replacement for Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas.
Responding to global interest in the hunger strike, Israel's foreign ministry insisted in a statement: "The Palestinian prisoners are not political prisoners".
"Let's say that the [younger] terrorists, or how we call them as security inmates, are not really nowadays on the agenda of the Palestinian Authority", she said.
Israeli authorities have detained approximately one million Palestinians since the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948 and the subsequent occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip in 1967, according to a joint statement released on Saturday by Palestinian organizations. At least 13 Palestinians reportedly injured in clashes with Israeli troops.
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