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<div class="article-meta"><span class="createdate"> Wednesday, 12 January 2011 12:50 </span></div>
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<p><img title="Fatah MP visits Gaza prison to ensure there are no Fatah hunger strikers" src="https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.org.uk/images/article_images/news/middle-east/palestinian-legislative-council-logo.jpg" border="0" alt="Fatah MP visits Gaza prison to ensure there are no Fatah hunger strikers" hspace="10" vspace="10" width="250" align="left" />Members  of the Palestinian Legislative Council representing Fatah and Hamas,  Sharaf Juma&#8217;a and Ismail Al-Ashqar respectively, made a visit to Gaza  Central Prison on Monday evening (10.01.2011) where they met with  inmates who confirmed that they were not being detained on political  grounds and that they were not on hunger strike.</p>
<p>The visit came  in response to an invitation from Gaza&#8217;s Interior Ministry following  Jumaa&#8217;s statement on Sunday which claimed that there were prisoners from  Fatah on a hunger strike.</p>
<p>Jama&#8217;a and Al-Ashqar toured the prison and visited the rooms of  prisoners, including Fatah members in Gaza, held for committing crimes  and security breaches.</p>
<p>They two MPs also met and listened to  some of the prisoners who spoke to them about their lives inside the  Reformation and Rehabilitation Centre where they are being held. They  clarified that rumours about a hunger strike among inmates were not  true, including those regarding the six Fatah members that Fatah  described as &#8220;political detainees&#8221; and claimed they were on a hunger  strike.</p>
<p>Last week witnessed a number of visits to the Gaza  Central Prison by several human rights organisations; they included the  Addameer Organisation for Human Rights and the Mizan Centre, in addition  to the Red Crescent and independent and specialised institutions and  figures. They all affirmed that Fatah claims to media outlets about  hunger strikes in the prison were not true.</p>
<p>The Hamas MP, Ismail  Al-Ashqar, expressed his hope that Fatah members of the Palestinians  Legislative Council take similar steps and allow Hamas MPs to visit  Hamas political detainees held in prisons in the West Bank.</p>
<p>The  Palestinian government in Gaza had reiterated that there were no  political prisoners in its jails; &#8220;We challenge MP Juma&#8217;a to announce  the name of a single prisoner that was arrested on political grounds&#8221;,  they said.</p>
<p>Juma&#8217;a had claimed that there were 28 Fatah political prisoners on hunger strike in Hamas&#8217; jails in Gaza.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.middleeastmonitor.org.uk/news/middle-east/1944-fatah-mp-visits-gaza-prison-to-ensure-there-are-no-fatah-hunger-strikers">Fatah MP visits Gaza prison to ensure there are no Fatah hunger strikers</a>.</p>
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