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<td><span class="PublishedDate">[ 					02/01/2011 &#8211; 03:48 PM ] </span></td>
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<p style="font-size:10pt;">WEST BANK, (PIC)&#8211; The families of  five hunger strikers said their sons may die any moment after their  health conditions reached a deadly level and appealed to all human  rights organizations to intervene with the Palestinian authority (PA) to  get their sons released from its jails.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">The committee speaking on behalf of the  families said in a statement on Sunday that the PA intelligence  apparatus prevented the families of the hunger strikers from seeing  their sons and cut off last Sunday all kinds of communications between  them, affirming that three of them are in very critical health  conditions and were admitted into hospitals in Bethlehem city.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">The committee warned that the hunger  strikers are closer to death than ever and may not live longer and held  de facto president Mahmoud Abbas and his intelligence director Majed  Faraj fully responsible for the death of any detainee.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">It explained that the intelligence  apparatus transferred hunger striker Muhannad Nairoukh and Majd Obeid  and Wisam Al-Qawasmi on Friday to hospital, affirming that head of the  PA intelligence Majed Faraj visited the hunger strikers and threatened  to shoot them dead if they did not end their hunger strike.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">The committee pointed out that the number of detainees in PA jails who go on hunger strike is on the rise.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">In this regard, Hamas lawmaker in  Bethlehem Anwar Zaboun told the Palestinian information center (PIC)  that one of the hunger strikers called Muhannad Nairoukh clinically died  and the PA intelligence refused to allow lawmakers from visiting the  hunger strikers to check on their conditions.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Zaboun added that the health conditions of  all hunger strikers is extremely serious, especially after they stopped  last Thursday to drink fluids because the intelligence apparatuses  backtracked on its promise to transfer them to Al-Khalil city as a  prelude to releasing them.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">The MP affirmed that he contacted the  intelligence director in Bethlehem to demand the implementation of the  verbal agreement that took place between the hunger strikers and  intelligence officers, but the officer in charge tried to justify why  they broke their promise and refused to allow any lawmaker to visit the  hunger strikers claiming they are alright.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">In a related incident, the Palestinian  ministry of prisoners&#8217; affairs and Wa&#8217;ed society for detainees  established at noon Sunday a sit-in tent in solidarity with the hunger  strikers and political prisoners in PA jails.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Hundreds of ex-detainees in Israeli jails and Palestinian officials are expected to participate in this event.</p>
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