イスラエル／パレスチナ和平

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/464469.html


The thousands of Palestinian security prisoners planning to launch a hunger strike Sunday "can strike for a day, a month, even starve to death," as far as he is concerned, Public Security Minister Tzachi Hanegbi told reporters Friday.


Hanegbi said that the mass hunger strike was designed to put a dent in Israeli policy aimed at preventing security prisoners from planning terror attacks in their cells.

Security officials at the jails are taking measures to prevent these attacks, Hanegbi said, adding that he had no intention of relaxing the rules.

Some 4,000 security prisoners announced earlier this month their intention to embark on the hunger strike to lay claim to a number of privileges they say have either been restricted or taken away by the Prisons Service.

The prisoners, who are expected to start the protest by August 18 at Nafha prison, are demanding public telephones in their cell blocks, the removal of glass separating them from visiting relatives, and an end to what they call "intrusive" body searches.