A solidarity stand was organized in the Gaza Strip today, Wednesday, with the prisoners on hunger strike, in protest against the policy of administrative detention practiced by the occupation authorities.
The participants in the sit-in in front of the Office of the High Commissioner in Gaza City raised slogans calling for the support and protection of prisoners, as well as pictures of a number of prisoners on hunger strike.
Awad al-Sultan, speaking on behalf of the National and Islamic Forces Prisoners Committee, called for a greater national and popular support for the hunger strikers and administrative detainees, by increasing the popular movement to exert all forms of pressure on the occupation to force it to end their suffering and stop administrative detention.
The Sultan stressed the need to formulate a national strategy to support and support the issue of prisoners as an issue on which there is a national consensus, calling for active participation in the national and international campaign to end the policy of administrative detention, and the continuation of legal efforts locally and internationally to stop this arbitrary policy.
The spokesman for the forces called on international institutions to fulfill their obligations towards protecting Palestinian prisoners from violations and practices of the occupation, and the need to maintain pressure towards obligating the occupation to international humanitarian law, and to stop the policy of administrative detention.
He called for considering the policy of administrative detention as a form of torture and collective punishment, which must be stopped and prohibited internationally, and to refer those who practice this policy to the International Criminal Court to be tried as a war criminal.
