The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics says Israel has more than 6,000 Palestinian prisoners behind bars.
The publication of the essay in the New York Times is a very positive step and we appreciate worldwide media and their addressing of the prisoner issue, particularly that of the leader Barghouti, a leader who enjoys vast support from the Palestinian people and a leader who contributed to the struggle for the national liberation of the Palestinians, which cost him dozens of years of his life in Israeli prison and exile from the [Palestinian] territories by the occupation government.
He was convicted of attacks that killed five people.
They also want even better medical treatment than they're getting, more TV channels, chronically sick terrorists be freed from jail and prisoner access to the cellphones in the security wings.
Israeli Minister of Public Security Gilad Erdan said he believes the strike is politically motivated and that the prisoners have no legitimate complaints.
His revelation of the daily struggles of more than 6,000 Palestinian political prisoners languishing in Israeli prisons and the ambition behind their hunger strike was, apparently, too sensitive for United States readers.
Some 6,500 Palestinians are now detained by Israel.
Furthermore, the Palestinian Detainees' Committee and the Palestinian Prisoner Society have reported that the prison authority in Galboa' Israeli prison has prevented the lawyers from visiting with hunger striking detainees. Hundreds of other civilians in solidarity with prisoners have taken to the streets to demand basic rights for the inmates and bring to light the hard conditions people have to face when behind bars. The strip is now controlled by Hamas Islamists.
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"When they ask for the basic rights like public telephone and regular visits by their families, these are legitimate rights", said Omar Yaghmour, the brother of a Palestinian prisoner on hunger strike.
"Through our hunger strike, we seek an end to these abuses ..."
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday he had read the Sunday article in the Times that "presents arch-terrorist Marwan Barghouti as a "parliamentarian and leader".
"Gaza, (Alresalah.ps)- Thousands of Palestinians took to the street on Tuesday to celeb rate the Palestinian prisoners" day across the occupied Palestinian territories.
An essay by Barghouti was smuggled out of his Israeli prison and printed as an op-ed in The New York Times.
The hunger strike was called in connection with Palestinian Prisoners Day, observed annually, but also ahead of commemorations this summer marking 50 years since the 1967 Six-Day War and the start of Israel's occupation. "They were brought to justice and are treated properly under global law".
Erdan said Barghouti was transferred to another prison in northern Israel and was placed in solitary confinement. Some 500 are held under administrative detention, which allows for imprisonment without charges or trial.
Barghouti (57) is a former senior official in Fatah, the political movement of the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, and is a popular figure in Palestinian society. It threatens to revive Israeli-Palestinian tensions amid attempts to revive stalled peace talks.
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