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<p>CAIRO, (PIC)&#8211; The Arab League says it  holds Israel responsible for the deteriorating conditions of  Palestinians detained in its jails, as prisoners go on wide-ranging  hunger strike and the Israeli Knesset pushes for more restrictions.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">The Arab League&#8217;s assistant  secretary-general for Palestinian affairs Mohammed Subaih accused  Israeli doctors of adding to the torture of the prisoners.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Prisoners in five detention centers have  gone on hunger strike to protest constant and humiliating prison  searches to their families during visits, solitary confinement and the  Israeli Prison Service&#8217;s failure in responding to their needs.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Subaih said the Arab League will continue  to make intense contacts with world rights groups to urge them visit and  search the prisons for human rights violations.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Meanwhile, the Israeli Knesset has  discussed four draft laws to tighten conditions on Palestinian  prisoners. They will vote on the draft laws, which have been  consolidated into one, in the first reading of its next session.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Grandfather of Israeli soldier Gilad  Shalit, who was captured by Palestinian resistance forces, attended the  hearing and asked the lawmakers to implement the draft, but he warned  that Gilad&#8217;s name should not be used on the law.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Separately, the Waed  Society for Captive  and Ex-captives staged a stand in solidarity with prisoners Hassan  Salama and Abbas al-Sayyid on Monday after a letter by Salama leaked  from his cell in isolation and after Sayyid&#8217;s health deteriorated.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Salama who was jailed in Israeli prisons  for more than ten years wrote a letter appealing to those in the outside  world to regularly discuss his case with legal experts.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Hassan Salama, from Khan Younis in  southern Gaza Strip, was sentenced to 48 life terms in 1996 after he  took revenge for the assassination of the martyr Yahya Ayyash.</p>
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