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<td><span class="PublishedDate">[ 					11/01/2011 &#8211; 02:31 PM ] </span></td>
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<p style="font-size:10pt;">NABLUS, (PIC)&#8211; The international  Tadamun (solidarity) foundation for human rights said that the Israeli  administration of Ashkelon prison took punitive measures against  Palestinian detainees after they went on hunger strike for two days.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Official of the foundation Ahmed  Al-Beitawi stated that the prisoners in Ashkelon jail a few days ago  went on hunger strike only for two days in protest at the humiliating  strip search they have to undergo before they get on the jail bus and  the repeated violent raids on their cells.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Beitawi added that the prison  administration retaliated to this peaceful hunger strike and punished  the detainees by depriving them of seeing their families for two weeks  and buying cooked vegetables and meat from the prison canteen.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">He also pointed to the spread of flu  infection among prisoners in this jail because of the lack of  ventilation inside cells and the deliberate medical neglect by the  administration that believes that the influenza is not a serious disease  requiring immediate treatment.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">In another incident, the Palestinian  prisoners in Negev desert prison appealed in leaked letters to  necessarily and urgently intervene with the Israeli prison authority to  protect them from the severe cold winter and the consequent diseases,  and help them to have blankets and heavy clothes.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">This appeal came in several letters sent recently by the prisoners to the specialist in prisoners&#8217; affairs Abdonnaser Farwana.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Farwana said on Monday that the letters  sent to him conveyed severe pains and great suffering the prisoners in  Negev jail are experiencing nowadays in the winter.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">He added that the suffering of these  detainees aggravated because of the cold atmosphere in the Negev prison  in the winter, and the lack of hot water, heavy clothes and blankets.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">&#8220;We were on some winter nights unable to  sleep save for a very short period of time because of the extreme cold,&#8221;  one of the letters read.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">For its part, the Palestinian ministry of  prisoners&#8217; affairs held Israel and its prison authority fully  responsible for the life of detainee Akram Mansour after his health  condition deteriorated badly in Ashkelon jail.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Spokesman for the ministry Riyadh  Al-Ashqar stated that Mansour is considered the third oldest Palestinian  detainee in Israeli jails, where he spent 32 years in prison. He was  taken prisoner in August 1979.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Ashqar added that Mansour has undergone  serious medical setbacks during the years of his detention and was not  provided with appropriate treatment, affirming that he suffers now from a  tumor in his head.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">He appealed to human rights organizations  to adopt the issue of prisoner Mansour and work on sending a medical  delegation to visit him in jail.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s75qHQtMKPkae9TYXhttZ4YXqfFKLYU9IqfAaNMV8emLJs%2b1rye6c1b6IGj%2fKQ0vYFo6jNhABi%2betMXfkO%2b4fnQ8vxkcUE8Pw6%2fYxSjCuAZr8%3d">Administration of Ashkelon punishes detainees for their hunger strike</a>.</p>
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