A new round of hunger strike spotlights Palestinian plight in the Zionist regime’s prisons

Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails staged a fresh hunger strike demanding the Zionist authorities to end their barbarous treatment. Their protest has inspired broad international support as a senior United Nations official voiced his profound concern over the well-being of Palestinian detainees in Israeli dungeons and in particular about the condition of hunger striker Samer Issawi.
A UN communiqué said that United Nations’ Humanitarian Coordinator James W. Rawley met in Ramallah with Palestinian Prisoner Affairs Minister Issa Qaraqe, where Mr Rawley conveyed the UN concerns regarding the dreadful situation of Palestinian POWs in Zionist custody, adding that the plight of Palestinian women prisoners was under the radar.
It is reported that the Zionists have been trying to break the strike, through psychological torture, like grilling meat in the cellblocks and putting prisoners, who are not on hunger strike, among the Palestinians.
“Rawley and Qaraqe discussed the lamentable situation of four Palestinian detainees currently on hunger strike and, in particular, the deteriorating health condition of one Palestinian detainee, Samer Issawi, who has been on hunger strike for more than 200 days,” the UN statement said.
Issawi and another Palestinian POW Ayman Sharawneh staged a protest against their conditions and long confinement without trial, fasting for months to demand their release from unjust incarceration.
International human rights groups point to the deplorable tragedy of Palestinian POW, use of torture and indefinite detention without any trial in the Israeli prisons, highlighting that empty talk about human rights in occupied Palestine has made not a tinge of difference.
Meanwhile, Palestinian activists reported that a number of Jewish extremists sprayed anti-Arab graffiti on the tombs in an ancient Muslim cemetery in west Baitul Muqaddas. Zionists frequently scrawl anti-Arab and anti-Christian graffiti across the exterior of buildings belonging to the Palestinian citizens, both Muslims and Christians.
Today, there needs to be a different international approach towards Israeli war crimes against the Palestinians. Since 1948, the Palestinian nation faces an apartheid regime that creates serious challenges, such as military occupant